But isn’t jamming on some “gnarly” concept pretty much Rucker’s pattern? For good and bad. I’ve always enjoyed his novels. Some have really interesting ideas. Others are just skeevy entertainment. 
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ive always wondered what it would have been like having him as a professor. terrifyingly difficult maths, or a rollicking good time? maybe both
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Both, I wouldn’t doubt.
Some of the earlier objections to his assessment that AI might actually improve people’s jobs are fair to a point. He certainly qualifies as coming from a boomer-generation background of middle-class liberal economic and academic privilege. He’s also the 3rd removed grandson of the philosopher GWF Hegel. (Look up his Wikipedia bio.)
His style always seems playful and exploratory. I wouldn’t read an interview with Rudy Rucker expecting a harshly judgmental social conscience, even though he certainly seems a liberal of the 1960’s hippie persuasion. He is a creative and out of the box thinker. And whether I agreed or disagreed with his position, what I would always expect is a thought provoking discussion.
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I suspect the “naturally, with no effort at all” method is the one that takes millions or billions of years. But the universe has lots of time.
If you want it to emerge on demand, in years or decades then you have to work your ass off.
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