[wainstead]

Read this over a decade ago and it’s been on my mind a lot lately. Very timely.

The notion of the inner solar system being converted into computronium sounds less and less far-fetched with each passing month.

[ridgeguy]

Perhaps this is an early indicator.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/utah-approve...

[fellowmartian]

Is it? Literally nothing even remotely similar from the book is happening in reality beyond the lobsters’ broken command of language being similar to early GPTs, but even they seem to have had a better world model than our current SOTA.

[db48x]

That’s because the lobsters were an AI using an LLM to communicate. All we have is the LLM.