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Valuable Humans in Transit @ Things Of Interest

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The power of the universal constructor is this: to create food from burnt charcoal and water. To turn the entire Sahara into solar cells. To split a cubic kilometre of ocean into water, salt and gold. I can literally build anything I can imagine, at any speed I can describe. And the things I can imagine with a mind like this, a mind imagining more of itself moment by moment— One definition of intelligence is the ability to skip deductive steps. To jump to a conclusion from the ghost of a question. It's preposterous that such a thing could be possible in an uncompromisingly digital reality, but if you make a computer wet enough, or big enough, or abstract enough, it will start to happen. And it has, now. One hundred original inspirations per second. My mind blossoms— no, not even that, it explodes, covering ground at geometric rates. One thousand ideas and barely enough time to articulate them. Australia— THINK. I didn't detect it coming. I first noticed it on a webcam feed, of all plac

Valuable Humans in Transit @ Things Of Interest Things Of Interest --> Things Of Interest Fiction Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories Valuable Humans in Transit 2022-10-17 by qntm Select language English (original) Chinese translation German translation A note from the author You can buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories . The power of the universal constructor is this: to create food from burnt charcoal and water. To turn the entire Sahara into solar cells. To split a cubic kilometre of ocean into water, salt and gold. I can literally b

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