this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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There's a great scifi book that has a computer that's run on ants as logic gates. It's slow as fuck but has enough processing power to run an AI.
Reminds me of the "computer" they made using 30 million soldiers signalling to each other with flags in the book the Three Body Problem
Came here to mention the trisolaran computer! Ngl I'm still unclear on the point of the whole virtual trisolaris.