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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 9079657" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>It could well be that intelligence is merely a bootstrapping process, necessary for life to leap from a planetary surface to the stars, but worthless -- indeed, an active hindrance to survival and growth -- once a certain level of technology is achieved. Perhaps the end state of a technological civilization is an eruption of self-replicating entities, hurtling outward in all directions at close to the speed of light, devoid of thought or emotion but possessed of unimaginable power, and bent on transforming the entire universe into more of themselves.</p><p></p><p>In that case, we would not be aware of them until the tidal wave was almost on top of us. We would see stars going dark suddenly, and the darkness racing across the galaxy toward us. Although the destruction would in fact be going a bit slower than light, to us it would appear to move much faster (due to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superluminal_motion" target="_blank">superluminal motion</a>). And when it got to us, that would be the end of humanity and of life on earth. The only way we could survive, if you want to call it that, would be to transform ourselves into the same thing before it got here.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes I think Lovecraft was an optimist.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 9079657, member: 58197"] It could well be that intelligence is merely a bootstrapping process, necessary for life to leap from a planetary surface to the stars, but worthless -- indeed, an active hindrance to survival and growth -- once a certain level of technology is achieved. Perhaps the end state of a technological civilization is an eruption of self-replicating entities, hurtling outward in all directions at close to the speed of light, devoid of thought or emotion but possessed of unimaginable power, and bent on transforming the entire universe into more of themselves. In that case, we would not be aware of them until the tidal wave was almost on top of us. We would see stars going dark suddenly, and the darkness racing across the galaxy toward us. Although the destruction would in fact be going a bit slower than light, to us it would appear to move much faster (due to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superluminal_motion']superluminal motion[/URL]). And when it got to us, that would be the end of humanity and of life on earth. The only way we could survive, if you want to call it that, would be to transform ourselves into the same thing before it got here. Sometimes I think Lovecraft was an optimist. [/QUOTE]
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