But if we run away, we are still going to be there. Sooner or later, we'll have the same problem all over again; runaway intelligence augmentation, self-expression, engineered intelligences, whatever. Possibly that's what happened out past the Böotes void—not a galactic-scale civilization, but a race of pathological cowards fleeing their own exponential transcendence. We carry the seeds of a singularity with us wherever we go, and if we try to excise those seeds, we cease to be human, don't we?


Chapter 8 (Elector), p. 356 - Accelerando (2005)

Charles Stross Quotes

But if we run away, we are still going to be there. Sooner or later, we'll have the same problem all over again; runaway intelligence augmentation,...

But if we run away, we are still going to be there. Sooner or later, we'll have the same problem all over again; runaway intelligence augmentation,...

But if we run away, we are still going to be there. Sooner or later, we'll have the same problem all over again; runaway intelligence augmentation,...

But if we run away, we are still going to be there. Sooner or later, we'll have the same problem all over again; runaway intelligence augmentation,...