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Doom can run on anything (pawb.social)
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[–] panggul_mas@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (5 children)

There's a great scifi book that has a computer that's run on ants as logic gates. It's slow as fuck but has enough processing power to run an AI.

[–] Whey_Isolate@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Children of Time?

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yea it’s this one. The evolved spider people used them in their equivalent of information age

Also I think something very similar happened in the 3 Body Problem trilogy at some point

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Also I think something very similar happened in the 3 Body Problem trilogy at some point

Trisolarians apparently at some point formed a computer out of the members of their species in order to try to predict the Chaotic Eras, it was presented as experiment to the humans in trisolarian VR game, that was very close to the beginning of the book.

[–] eltimablo@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Discworld?

[–] Maultasche@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

-+- OUT OF CHEESE -+-

[–] Caspase8@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Reminds me of the "computer" they made using 30 million soldiers signalling to each other with flags in the book the Three Body Problem

[–] BingoBangoBongo@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Came here to mention the trisolaran computer! Ngl I'm still unclear on the point of the whole virtual trisolaris.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 0 points 2 years ago

There is one in the discworld novels too.