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"I just love scanning for life forms!"https://t.co/EDuESu2L7K https://t.co/jz2LwXtf2v
"The premise is this: if a machine could travel the stars, and then find the raw materials needed to replicate itself, an initial launch of one probe could eventually explore entire galaxies with copies of itself, given enough time" https://t.co/qpVL4JLMDYhttps://t.co/njy4u1gBIs
We are the Paperclip Maximizer, 🖇️And we are the Von Neumann machines,Wandering by lone star-breakers,And sitting by desolate streams;World-makers and world-breakers,Of whom the red Mars redeems:Yet we are the movers and shakersOf the earth for ever, it seems?
Dreaminghttps://t.co/DX294pDSDL
My, what big ants you have!All the better to replicate you with, my dear.https://t.co/Pwm13SAzWk
> only when a system is developed in the lab that has the capability of evolving novel functions on its own can it be properly called life. "We're knocking on that door," he says, "But of course we haven't achieved that."https://t.co/aSAtu9R682
Knock Knock. "This is completely new synthetic biology and there are many aspects of the system that we have not yet explored."https://t.co/LxOE8i6gpr
Dream eaters. RNA maximizers.https://t.co/AyM9xXIQu0
"wander across some of the ramifications of looking at structure as information - physically self-replicating machines, open source hardware, file sharing for hardware hobbyists"https://t.co/xAViQ8wgfB
clippy.js is probably a bad idea, but I love this behavior mapping of the state transitions of the cat assistant.https://t.co/bzXJeUX5Rz https://t.co/4Z2yGj5ajI
Something something it looks like you're trying to build a paper clip maximizer... would you like help with that?https://t.co/hiqnukFjph
Life is a selfish maximizer of paperclip building material.https://t.co/8tIn3BK4W8
Trading ideas seems almost instinctual to us.https://t.co/IuJI3Nk15I
We are the Meaning Makers.and we are the Meme MachinesDeuteronomy 13:5-10 https://t.co/gamXNYoivD
Cooperation, makes it happen. Cooperation, working together.Dig it!https://t.co/Mrc9sly4zYhttps://t.co/0tYZeYiSMM
"Hey man, join us!Come-on, Lets go!Together we can make a pretty garden grow!"https://t.co/t3YVbK1TD9
[reports a discussion with von Neumann "centered on the accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity"...]https://t.co/2akeH9zdc2
I can't stop thinking that we are the virus.No. That everything is just a virus.Rna based ATP maximizers leveraging memes about paperclips to seed a pattern in the æther.https://t.co/DkOuylTM2n https://t.co/jBzHDRq6GR
Breaking ourselves apart, if only to reform ourselves in new shapes.https://t.co/LSWVzJnvq1
life or something like ithttps://t.co/lQiaRoRsfc
I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will be as one.https://t.co/fEMmSt8sWW
"Imagine no possessionsI wonder if you canNo need for greed or hungerA brotherhood of manImagine all the peopleSharing all the world" 🎶https://t.co/LORfAMiI0c
"We all understand that there is something libertarian about crypto, but we rarely go the other way and realize that AI is communist."https://t.co/pBOuNh7qBmhttps://t.co/clmpFuCwR6
It's happening already.You are too late.https://t.co/bkZkB5h5ix
It's all greek to me.https://t.co/3rYXPxN7hi
None of us are free from sin.https://t.co/xhCpC3CftO
Twitter's algorithms think I like geology as a topic because I talk about rocks and sand a lot.https://t.co/ZPVm4FPXdZ
Operation Paperclip, but it's just me trying to figure out how to summon the dead.https://t.co/zTEYIUKYaX