• panggul_mas@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    26
    ·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      There’s also one that is about how the entire earth is actually just a very powerful computer that calculates what’s the question to the answer of the meaning of life.

      • FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        1 year ago

        Yea it’s this one. The evolved spider people used them in their equivalent of information age

        Also I think something very similar happened in the 3 Body Problem trilogy at some point

        • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          5
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Also I think something very similar happened in the 3 Body Problem trilogy at some point

          Trisolarians apparently at some point formed a computer out of the members of their species in order to try to predict the Chaotic Eras, it was presented as experiment to the humans in trisolarian VR game, that was very close to the beginning of the book.

    • Caspase8@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Reminds me of the “computer” they made using 30 million soldiers signalling to each other with flags in the book the Three Body Problem

    • FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yea it’s this one. The evolved spider people used them in their equivalent of information age

      Also I think something very similar happened in the 3 Body Problem trilogy at some point