Super Weapons
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Future of Intelligence
The implication is somewhere between the Borg from Star Trek and a paper grid maximizer or optimizer something that pretty much goes through space turning every free bit of matter into more of itself. One can make the argument that any interstellar species moving out from its homeworld is basically acting as a hegemonizing swarm just with various tightness to its curve of standardization, accepted outliers or mutant peoples and cultures. While converting entire star into a massive war engine able to rain all KMs and mega lasers across the galaxy converting a star into a single massive computer mind is actually way more dangerous we don't know what the hard limits on physics are but odds are good such a mind would quickly find
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