From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Fri Dec 31 2010 - 21:31:52 MST
It's "Fossil Games" by Tom Purdom.
I'm making a list at
http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/12/31/pc-gamer-uks-game-of-the-year/
Also see
http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/3ju/looking_for_some_pieces_of_transhumanist_fiction/
for some discussion.
-Robin
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:20:10PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>
> I really didn't expect this to be hard, but even rec.arts.sf.written
> failed (
> http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_thread/thread/70be22b57022a059#
> )
>
> I read this on the web. I *think* it was a short story; at most
> novelette length. This was within the last 5 years or so.
>
> Basically, it's the future, humans have done lots and lots of
> intelligence enhancement; each generation is smarter than the one
> before. Then we find a planet with alien ruins. There is a ship
> sent there. For reasons I can no longer remember, one of the people
> (male?) on the ship tries to destroy the ruins, and another tries to
> stop her (pretty sure female). She is younger, and hence smarter,
> than him, so he ends up taking lots of heavy-side-effect nootropics
> to keep up with her. The war is fought almost entirely by 3-D
> printed robots from the ships machine shops.
>
> The emphasis is very much on intelligence: that a standard deviation
> of IQ is going to determine the results of any strategy game
> (probably mostly true, given equal experience) and that war is
> basically that (also mostly true in this case, since the robots
> won't freak out and run).
>
> -Robin
>
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