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Title text: It may even insist that it can wonder, but it's all just a modestly convincing illusion.

Votey

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But then how do they have spacecraft?

Well, there are humans that do little parts of the design, then ones that look at bigger parts, and bigger parts.

That's just the start. Like, the humans that build the engines don't know how to make engine metal. That's a whole different set of humans.

What?

And then for the propellant it's another set of humans. The computer has its own humans, but they're not the same humans who code.

There are whole teams who just think about spacecraft shape! No single human knows how to make anything. The information is latent in the organizational structure.

Like a slime mold.

Exactly.

This is why we can't negotiate with it. There's no leader. Like they don't even have "a spacecraft." they're budding off multiple spacecrafts in different areas that don't communicate.

So what do we do?

Quarantine. We don't need it spreading, but it's too interesting to annihilate.

They're gonna wonder where all the other life in the universe is.

The aggregate might appear to wonder, but it's an illusion.

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The good news is that chemically, they are a great source of candle grease.

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