Berserker + Aestivation — The Two Robotic-Substrate Frameworks
Saberhagen 1962 / Webb 2002 — Sandberg/Armstrong/Ćirković 2017
Plain read: Two cosmological frameworks where the universe LOOKS empty but isn't. Berserker says hostile machines are hunting; Aestivation says advanced civilizations are sleeping until the universe gets cold enough for efficient computation.
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