I do understand that it's a serious investment of time and energy, but... it *still* feels like a bit much. For one thing, the "speed" and "memory" together really *do* make an ubercomputer, and that's potentially world-breaky all by itself. For another, I guess I feel like you've already got about one and a half Really Cool Things worth of semicontrolled handwavium in the form of the memory goop (one) and the apples (a half. It gets close because of the "it will make you healthy. Always" and then cuts to half by the "and then it will do something major and unpredictable to you." Still, this is the sort of thing that would have a serious percentage of the *Dane* population suddenly going "You know... maybe having a biomod wouldn't be so bad." It's also the sort of thing that would be attracting a fair amount of attention from various military types, if they knew about it, and just about any hospital that could would want to lay in a supply. That's not trivial.)
So...one and a half, then.
...and "speed" would be at least another, and would allow you to make Arbitrarily Powerful Computers on demand. At least as far as I can go by feel, the individual computers that you could make at that point would be at the level of Really Cool Thing (Except that there would be a lot of them, so it wouldn't any more - but you know what I mean.)
...and "weapon" would be at least another, and looks like it would tag on a Thing No One Else Can Do to boot, and one of the more major ones.
I recognize that this would take time. I recognize that it would take effort. I realize these things - but I feel like that's just putting a delay on the moment when you Break The World With The Weight Of Your Presence.
Concerns, I say. I have concerns.
...and it's true that you write these thing beautifully, but I'm not convinced that that's *enough* reason.
So...one and a half, then.
...and "speed" would be at least another, and would allow you to make Arbitrarily Powerful Computers on demand. At least as far as I can go by feel, the individual computers that you could make at that point would be at the level of Really Cool Thing (Except that there would be a lot of them, so it wouldn't any more - but you know what I mean.)
...and "weapon" would be at least another, and looks like it would tag on a Thing No One Else Can Do to boot, and one of the more major ones.
I recognize that this would take time. I recognize that it would take effort. I realize these things - but I feel like that's just putting a delay on the moment when you Break The World With The Weight Of Your Presence.
Concerns, I say. I have concerns.
...and it's true that you write these thing beautifully, but I'm not convinced that that's *enough* reason.