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epsilonic 17 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the ...

Ted Kaczynski, despite his violent activism, had interesting things to say about this in the form of self-propagating systems.

andai 17 days ago [–]

What's this? He wrote on replicators?

epsilonic 16 days ago | [–]

I recommend reading this short essay to understand what self-propagating systems are:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-why-th...

Here is an expanded version of the same essay as well (part 5 is prescient):

https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-why-the...

Also, a very lucid synthesis of TK's work is provided in Chad A. Haag's book: The Philosophy of Ted Kaczynski.

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