Stingray comments on Open thread, Nov. 16 - Nov. 22, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Stingray 17 November 2015 10:19:42PM 1 point [-]

Are there any science fiction novels that take this approach?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 18 November 2015 06:01:58AM 5 points [-]

Charles Stross' Saturn's Children and Neptune's Brood has robots with minds based on humans as humanity's successor.

David Moffitt's Genesis Quest and Second Genesis has specs for humans sent out by radio and recreated by aliens.

James Hogan's Voyage from Yesteryear has a probe which has humans recreated on another planet and raised by robots.

Comment author: philh 18 November 2015 10:22:01AM 3 points [-]

The characters in Greg Egan's Diaspora are mostly sentient software, who send out several probes containing copies of themselves.