SiSU: - Accelerando

Accelerando
ing with your daughter, Manny. She loaned me her experiential
digest of the journey to Hyundai +4904 / -56 . I found it quite alarming.
Nobody's casting aspersions on her observations, not after
that self-propelled stock market bubble or 419 scam or whatever
it was got loose in the Economics 2.0 sphere, but the implications
- the Vile Offspring will eat the solar system, Manny. Then they'll
slow down. But where does that leave us, I ask you? What is there
for orthohumans like us to do?”
Manfred nods thoughtfully. “You've heard the argument between 2471
the accelerationistas and the time-binder faction, I assume?” he
asks.
“Of course.” Gianni takes a long pull on his beer. “What do you 2472
think of our options?”
“The accelerationistas want to upload everyone onto a fleet of star- 2473
wisps and charge off to colonize an uninhabited brown dwarf planetary
system. Or maybe steal a Matrioshka brain that's succumbed
to senile dementia and turn it back into planetary biomes with cores
of diamond-phase computronium to fulfil some kind of demented
pastoralist nostalgia trip. Rousseau's universal robots. I gather
Amber thinks this is a good idea because she's done it before - at
least, the charging off aboard a starwisp part. `To boldly go where
no uploaded metahuman colony fleet has gone before' has a certain
ring to it, doesn't it?” Manfred nods to himself. “Like I say,
it won't work. We'd be right back to iteration one of the waterfall
model of singularity formation within a couple of gigaseconds of
arriving. That's why I came back: to warn her.”
“So?” Gianni prods, pretending to ignore the frowns that Annette is 2474
casting his way.
“And as for the time-binders,” Manfred nods again, “they're like 2475
Sirhan. Deeply conservative, deeply suspicious. Holding out for
staying here as long as possible, until the Vile Offspring come for
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