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Something similar is described in Ted Chiang's Lifecycle of Software Objects

https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2010/fiction_the...

"...We could run a society of them at hothouse speeds without any risk of them going feral, and see what they produce"

I'm curious to see if there's a collection of similar works that go down this trope, or if it is indeed something that's only recently emerged.

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Microcosmic God by Theodore Sturgeon. Mid-20th century.

THANK YOU!

I have been looking for this short story for decades.

It makes me so happy that the three parents to this comment all have the stories posted online for free, with the authors permission. There's definitely a correlation with this strain of hard science fiction.

"Microcosmic God" doesn't seem freely available to me.

Third google result for me: http://1pezeshk.com/wp-content/pics/2013/01/microcosmicgodth...

Hopefully it's legal and accessible for you.

Thank you.

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