Just one last idea in this. One thing that crops up every now and again in the Culture novels is the response of the Culture to Swarms, which are self-replicating viral machines or organisms. Once these things start consuming everything else, the AIs (mainly Ships and Hubs) respond by treating the swarms as a threat to the diversity of their Culture. They first try to negotiate, then they'll eradicate. If they can contain them, they'll do that.
They do this even though they can themselves withdraw from real spacetime. They don't have to worry about their own survival. They do this simply because life is more interesting when it includes all the rest of us. Regards Fergal Byrne -- Fergal Byrne, Brenter IT Author, Real Machine Intelligence with Clortex and NuPIC https://leanpub.com/realsmartmachines Speaking on Clortex and HTM/CLA at euroClojure Krakow, June 2014: http://euroclojure.com/2014/ and at LambdaJam Chicago, July 2014: http://www.lambdajam.com http://inbits.com - Better Living through Thoughtful Technology http://ie.linkedin.com/in/fergbyrne/ - https://github.com/fergalbyrne e:fergalbyrnedub...@gmail.com t:+353 83 4214179 Join the quest for Machine Intelligence at http://numenta.org Formerly of Adnet edi...@adnet.ie http://www.adnet.ie On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 5:04 PM, cogmission (David Ray) <cognitionmiss...@gmail.com> wrote: > This was someone's response to Jeff's interview (see here: > https://www.facebook.com/fareedzakaria/posts/10152703985901330) > Please read and comment if you feel the need... > Cheers, > David > -- > *With kind regards,* > David Ray > Java Solutions Architect > *Cortical.io <http://cortical.io/>* > Sponsor of: HTM.java <https://github.com/numenta/htm.java> > d....@cortical.io > http://cortical.io
