The automorphs. The quickly diverging types of self-designed, redesigned beings, that quickly start optimizing chemical processes, materials, biological cells, and everything at the superfast, supersmall scale on up, to maintain or enhance their survival expectations, in the presence of each other.
Redesigning cells from insanely inefficient (but still crazy fast) brownian motion networking, which allows competing objectives like building oneself vs. carrying out ones task to take place in the same place, to perfectly honed nano machines, pipes, conveyers, reaction chambers, composers, ....
Things already happen in the small scale many orders of magnitude faster than at our scale. Fine scale design of systems will add more magnitudes.
And then we come to it, ... the automorphs literally eat and re-eat their own substrates, and in the process eat the rest of the world. Materially.
> so what's next?
The automorphs. The quickly diverging types of self-designed, redesigned beings, that quickly start optimizing chemical processes, materials, biological cells, and everything at the superfast, supersmall scale on up, to maintain or enhance their survival expectations, in the presence of each other.
Redesigning cells from insanely inefficient (but still crazy fast) brownian motion networking, which allows competing objectives like building oneself vs. carrying out ones task to take place in the same place, to perfectly honed nano machines, pipes, conveyers, reaction chambers, composers, ....
Things already happen in the small scale many orders of magnitude faster than at our scale. Fine scale design of systems will add more magnitudes.
And then we come to it, ... the automorphs literally eat and re-eat their own substrates, and in the process eat the rest of the world. Materially.
Some AI brainworm that eats AI, obviously.
Skynet