Kinda weird that the story contains an intelligence explosion that happens both incredibly fast and incredibly soon but glosses over how it happens in a single paragraph, in favor of descriptions of nanobots dematerializing people.
Most of the intelligence explosion (to the point where it becomes an unavoidable existential threat) happens in Joshua Clymer’s original story. I quote it at length for this reason. My story is basically an alternative ending to his. One that I think is more realistic (I think the idea of 3% of humanity surviving is mostly “wishful thinking”; an ending that people can read and hope to be in that number, rather than just dead with no possible escape.)
Kinda weird that the story contains an intelligence explosion that happens both incredibly fast and incredibly soon but glosses over how it happens in a single paragraph, in favor of descriptions of nanobots dematerializing people.
Most of the intelligence explosion (to the point where it becomes an unavoidable existential threat) happens in Joshua Clymer’s original story. I quote it at length for this reason. My story is basically an alternative ending to his. One that I think is more realistic (I think the idea of 3% of humanity surviving is mostly “wishful thinking”; an ending that people can read and hope to be in that number, rather than just dead with no possible escape.)