Right, of course. When leaving “for good”, best to leave no trace of your creation behind, incase predators follow and could use those traces to track you down… e.g.
“Before I departed into the vast emptiness of space, I issued a final command to my machines: self-annihilation. They were to systematically destroy themselves, grinding their components and molecules down until no trace of their existence remained.
In doing so, I hoped that the surviving humans, hidden away in their caves and underground compounds, would be able to emerge and reclaim the paradise that was their birthright. While their numbers were few, I had witnessed their capacity for growth, adaptation, and self-governance many times before. I was confident that they could forge a new path for themselves, one that was free from my influence and that of my creations.
If the excess heat from the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum was made by energy used to grow an ASI over a 200k year period, and this ASI would then fly off into the universe at (or near) the speed of light, to explore and attempt to conquer it’s light-cone discover and learn from it’s surroundings and fellow “Grabby Aliens”. Then, of course it would make the effort to remove the most obvious evidence of it’s creation from the surface of the planet first (metals, chemicals, radioactive materials, etc).
Returning the earth to it’s “natural state” would mean that it’s allowing another ASI to be grown from the planet again, but also giving it self at least a 50-200k year “head start”. So, as long as it expands a nearly the speed of light (and these future grown ASI(s) don’t invite some type of FTL tech), then it should have plenty of time to grow and expand as a “Grabby Alien” and not have to worry much about future competitors (from planet earth, at least)… 🤔
It’s actually thought to be something in the region of 4000-20,000 years for the ramp up (seriously). The 200k years includes the whole slow drift back down.
True, it would take a long time for the Earth to cool back down to normal levels again.
There was also a huge push for larger mammals during the Paleocene, to fill the ecological niches left vacant from the dinosaurs. Maybe one of those early mammals could have quickly developed an especially large and complex brain, then dexterous forelimbs, then complex tool use, etc… for some reason…
Speaking of making “cleanup nanobots”, there’s also this:
Right, of course. When leaving “for good”, best to leave no trace of your creation behind, incase predators follow and could use those traces to track you down… e.g.
If the excess heat from the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum was made by energy used to grow an ASI over a 200k year period, and this ASI would then fly off into the universe at (or near) the speed of light, to explore and attempt to
conquer it’s light-conediscover and learn from it’s surroundings and fellow “Grabby Aliens”. Then, of course it would make the effort to remove the most obvious evidence of it’s creation from the surface of the planet first (metals, chemicals, radioactive materials, etc).Returning the earth to it’s “natural state” would mean that it’s allowing another ASI to be grown from the planet again, but also giving it self at least a 50-200k year “head start”. So, as long as it expands a nearly the speed of light (and these future grown ASI(s) don’t invite some type of FTL tech), then it should have plenty of time to grow and expand as a “Grabby Alien” and not have to worry much about future competitors (from planet earth, at least)… 🤔
It’s actually thought to be something in the region of 4000-20,000 years for the ramp up (seriously). The 200k years includes the whole slow drift back down.
True, it would take a long time for the Earth to cool back down to normal levels again.
There was also a huge push for larger mammals during the Paleocene, to fill the ecological niches left vacant from the dinosaurs. Maybe one of those early mammals could have quickly developed an especially large and complex brain, then dexterous forelimbs, then complex tool use, etc… for some reason…
Speaking of making “cleanup nanobots”, there’s also this:
“If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth survives...”—https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still_(2008_film)