The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
2006 • 176 pages
Ratings7
Average rating3.4
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Ratings7
Average rating3.4
Deals with the ramifications of a powerful, superintelligent supercomputer that discovers a method of rewriting the "BIOS" of reality while studying a little known quirk of quantum physics discovered during the prototyping of its own specialised processors, ultimately heralding a technological singularity.
Originally published on the kuro5in.org web community.
Series
1 released bookPrime Intellect is a 1-book series first released in 2006 with contributions by Roger Williams.
Reviews with the most likes.
Overall a pretty interesting description of a fast takeoff event. I really enjoyed the moments just before the change and I really liked how this fleshed out some possible motivations of a godlike ASI more than just something that wants paperclips. But the torture porn was a bit dramatic.
3.5
It sounds more complicated than it is. This is a really neat sci-fi book that still resonates despite having been written in the early years of the internet. Short, cool, and interesting... but you have to make it past the first chapter!
