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kleinbl00 · 2260 days ago · link · · parent · post: Google scrambled to get employees to delete internal memo
OHHHHHHH SHIT DID YOU JUST POST AN ANIMATED GIF Hey everybody! mk just posted an animated gif! The three books of Robert Charles Wilson's Spin trilogy basically argue that the evolutionarily dominant strategy of gray goo is to capture and tend to intelligence because of its anti-entropic tendencies.
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Not his point, really - the argument is if intelligence arises in one place but not in another, the gray goo will show up eventually and as the gray goo is immortal and intelligence is not, that resource will be conserved. As a thought experiment it's novel and reasonably well-argued. The middle book is kind of shit, though.