[ExI] self-accelerating AI sf?

[Dan Ust]

Macrolife by Zebrowski? Or was that more uploading and being subsumed into a larger mind? I forget...

Regards,

Dan

On Jul 29, 2011, at 21:14, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> I'm doing a philosophical piece on the Singularity, and I'm deeply embarrassed not to be able to think instantly of any good sf stories that explicitly portray exponential AIs: self-augmenting/self-rewriting/selfbootstrapping-to-the-Singularity... Vinge's MAROONED assumes it, but we see only tangential glimpses, Stiegler's "Gentle Seduction" spreads it out over years, centuries, billions of years, as does Asimov's "Last Question." Stross's ACCELERANDO also implies it, but it's not what I'd call the Spike, with each self-transcending state occurring in roughly half the time of the previous jump. Greg Bear's BLOOD MUSIC is sort of there, but it isn't AI, and it uses magic QT.
> 
> What is my aging brain missing? (I know I'm going to kick myself.)
> 
> Damien Broderick
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