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FTA: "Ants live symbiotically with other animals as well as plants. For example, 'herder' ants take care of aphids, defending them against ladybirds and 'milkin
by johnohara 10y ago
FTA:
"Ants live symbiotically with other animals as well as plants. For example, 'herder' ants take care of aphids, defending them against ladybirds and 'milking' them."
From Feynman's "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom"
on the how it might be possible to miniaturize manufacturing:
"What I would like to suggest is the possibility of training an ant to train a mite to do this."
- has2k1 10y agoYou are heading towards a search algorithm. That is, a search for the right incentives/disincentives for possibly all of the biological organisms that make up the manufacturing stack. Then the question becomes can you purchase enough Time which is perhaps the key ingredient in search problems.
- johnohara 10y agoTo be accurate, those are Feynman's words, not mine. Taken from the talk he gave in 1959. He was discussing how to manufacture at the smallest levels. I thought them prescient when I read the "milking" statement in the article.
- has2k1 10y agoWhen I read the transcript of that talk some years ago, I spent some time trying to come to grips with how trans-formative the idea was.