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Re:NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to E... by science4sail on Monday April 22, 2024 @08:37PM (#40127223)
> compute more than several galaxies full of classical humans

Unfortunately the simulated classical humans in your Matrioshka Brain will want to mine Bitcoin, which means that our digital descendants will have to become a true interstellar species anyway in order to convert the Laniakea Supercluster into coin-mining computronium.

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Re:NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to E... by eigenket on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @04:27AM (#40129750)
This is essentially the plot of a book called Accelerando, published way back in 2005!
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