The weapons of chaosRobert E. Vardeman
The weapons of chaos
by Robert E. Vardeman · first published 1988
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…methodology aims to create structures that self-propagate such things. Wouldn't it be horrifying if people en-masse just started to go insane. The thought reminds me of a fictional book I read, a series called Weapons of Chaos by Robert Vardeman, where an extinct race created a similar weapon, and its why they went extinct. Evil people are quite often blind people that are more focused on whether they 'can' do something rather…
"Alien Message" reminds me of Robert E. Vardeman's "Weapons of Chaos" trilogy: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/v/robert-e-vardeman/ Just as Yudkowsky's short story, those Vardeman novels include advanced aliens living on a much slower time-scale (and much larger space-scale)…
on “Eliezer Yudkowsky: That Alien Message” ↗