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"Excuse me Michael, I have to go Saddam-ize myself."

Vernor Vinge was a science fiction author who died a few days ago and originally coined the term "The Singularity." Has anyone read his book A Fire Upon the Deep? It's mostly scifi adventure, but he considered superintelligent AI to be a likely development in the future, and assumed a setting with such AI would be unimaginable to normal humans. He dealt with the writing challenge of this in the book by having the laws of physics vary from the matter dense centre of the galaxy to the sparse outer reaches of intergalactic space, from the "Unthinking Depths" in the centre where intelligence is impossible, to the "Slow Zone" in the mid spiral arms (where the Sun is) in which FTL travel is imp

https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1561933795502067713

Interesting to see how this might change NASA priorities.

https://twitter.com/JimBridenstine/status/1305598182571810822