Weirdest AH ideas?

kernals12

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An AI can run on a wide variety of mediums. The one that eventually destroys humanity in my timeline is a Chinese Room type AI.

That's right. Humanity gets destroyed by a program that is essentially starting as a bunch of people reading from a rule book and scribbling notes on pieces of paper based on those rules. The rule book is the code for a super intelligent AI which proceeds to strongly compel ever greater amounts of people into itself and start modifying itself.

At one point the people scribble an image that unknowingly uploads the ruleset directly into their brains, like a computer virus for the human brain.
 

yoyo

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I've always found a race of intelligent insects founding a civilisation to be an interesting, if somewhat bizarre, concept.
it can be said that ants have arguably domesticated a fungus. Just massively increase their individual intellectual capacity, and advance pheremonal communication though.
 

yoyo

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An AI can run on a wide variety of mediums. The one that eventually destroys humanity in my timeline is a Chinese Room type AI.

That's right. Humanity gets destroyed by a program that is essentially starting as a bunch of people reading from a rule book and scribbling notes on pieces of paper based on those rules. The rule book is the code for a super intelligent AI which proceeds to strongly compel ever greater amounts of people into itself and start modifying itself.

At one point the people scribble an image that unknowingly uploads the ruleset directly into their brains, like a computer virus for the human brain.

Interesting idea, so basically like a meme that manifests itself into a psychological dictatorship?
 
sounds pretty realistic, surprised it didn't happen
I've seen one documentary suggesting the Maori got to South America so early, they predate the Clovis: 40KYA.
I've always found a race of intelligent insects founding a civilisation to be an interesting, if somewhat bizarre, concept.
Thranx for the memories?

I'd like to see somebody try a TL where humanity never invents agriculture, & stays mobile, but develops technology (& industry?) anyhow. (I have no clue how you'd do it.)
 
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Empty America that wasn't always empty.
I.e. when the Norse get to Vinland and Markland there's no people there. As Europeans explore the new lands further and further they come across remains of human settlements, and eventually large ruined cities.
Some plague manages to wipe out humanity in the New World cirka 950.
 
An AI can run on a wide variety of mediums. The one that eventually destroys humanity in my timeline is a Chinese Room type AI.

That's right. Humanity gets destroyed by a program that is essentially starting as a bunch of people reading from a rule book and scribbling notes on pieces of paper based on those rules. The rule book is the code for a super intelligent AI which proceeds to strongly compel ever greater amounts of people into itself and start modifying itself.

At one point the people scribble an image that unknowingly uploads the ruleset directly into their brains, like a computer virus for the human brain.
*laughs in Turing Machine writing on paper tape*
 
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