[ExI] Black hole brains (was Re: taxonomy for fermi paradox fans)
Stuart LaForge
avant at sollegro.com
Mon Feb 23 19:46:02 UTC 2015
Here is a crazy new scenario to add to the list:
Perhaps the time period between a civilization developing recursively
self-improving general AI and its subsequent development of
computronium is relatively short compared to geologic time scales.
Computronium, being the maximally optimized medium for computation,
quickly saturates the Beckenstein bound of their region of space-time
by being so information dense. This causes their space-time to warp to
the point of pinching itself off, forming an event horizon around
them. This effectively renders the civilization a black hole to those
observers still in comparatively flat space-time meaning that since no
information can escape the event horizon, no civilization outside the
black hole can detect the civilization inside the black hole.
Meanwhile, inside the black hole, the post-singularity civilization
effectively exists in its own universe, with mass-energy and
information continually pouring in from the outside. Thus, limited
perhaps to competition between like civilizations, the civilization in
question can grow to massive proportions becoming a Kardeshev scale
type 3 civilization, controlling their galaxy by becoming the billion
solar mass black hole galactic nucleus. Thereby secretly ruling a
galaxy without ever leaving home.
If any of the authors on the list would like to write a science
fiction novel on this premise, I would gladly co-author or consult
with them for a share of the profits. :-)
Stuart LaForge
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