In Stross’s novel “Accelerando”, even without the locally deeper physics, the AIs formed Matrioshka Brains and more or less ignored the rest of the universe because of communication difficulties—mainly reduced bandwidth but also time lags.
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In Stross’s novel “Accelerando”, even without the locally deeper physics, the AIs formed Matrioshka Brains and more or less ignored the rest of the universe because of communication difficulties—mainly reduced bandwidth but also time lags.