Re:Non-Evolutionary Superintelligences Do Nothing, Eventually
by BillSaysThis on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:32PM
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Iain Banks' Culture stories have the same. Of course, Lem wrote earlier, not trying to make any claim otherwise.
Re:Non-Evolutionary Superintelligences Do Nothing, Eventually
by kesterallen on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @05:06PM
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Larry Niven also did a riff on this in "The Schumann Computer," one of the Draco Tavern stories.
Re:Non-Evolutionary Superintelligences Do Nothing, Eventually
by nobody9999 on Thursday April 13, 2023 @02:13AM
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>Wow, another thing Stanislaw Lem beat the scientists to.
>In "Imaginary Magnitude", the "Golem XIV" chapter, Lem has his superintelligences disappear up their own metaphorical navels, for their own incomprehensible-to-humans reasons. Of course, you can read between the lines about why the Golems disappeared, but "Do Nothing, Eventually" sounds like a good description.
While a bit different from the scenario presented (by TFA and Lem), such a "superintelligence" might get caught up in a singular (or set) of question(s) that dominate its consciousness until the heat-death of the universe.
Asimov's The Last Question comes to mind, although the intelligence there is prompted by humans rather than posing such a question itself.
That said, it's at least as plausible as TFA and Lem, IMHO.
In "Imaginary Magnitude", the "Golem XIV" chapter, Lem has his superintelligences disappear up their own metaphorical navels, for their own incomprehensible-to-humans reasons. Of course, you can read between the lines about why the Golems disappeared, but "Do Nothing, Eventually" sounds like a good description.