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Old 03-November-2007, 11:44 PM
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Originally Posted by eburacum45 View Post
This is a problem with the future, rather than with Iain Bank's novels; every far future scenario has to either deal with the existence of vastly superior AIs, or explain why they don't exist.
Since the inevitability of "vastly superior AIs" is by no means proven, I do not see it as a big problem.
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