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Blindsight by Peter Watts. It has some silliness but the principal idea was brilliant and has really stayed with me: the idea that self awareness might be an ab
by jemmyw 2y ago
Blindsight by Peter Watts. It has some silliness but the principal idea was brilliant and has really stayed with me: the idea that self awareness might be an aberration and alien life could be intelligent without it. In particular, the idea that we attacked first by broadcasting our nonsense, purposefully wasting the processing capacity of other intelligences.
- moribvndvs 2y agoAlso, the manner in which the aliens evaded observation literally took my breath away when I first used it. Brilliant book. All the Rifters books, actually. And The Island, and… well you get the picture. Fantastic author.