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I like how "Self writing software" is very soon and only medium impact. Once we have self writing software, everything else on the grid comes for free! Step one
by abainbridge 8y ago
I like how "Self writing software" is very soon and only medium impact. Once we have self writing software, everything else on the grid comes for free! Step one would be to automatically write a better automatic software writer.
- nannal 8y agoPipe a quine into a compiler, run the output. Bow before my might simple mortals. -- For fun a while back I was playing with the concept of self modifying bash. A bash script that duplicates and modifies a random character/ adds a character in a random location, or deletes a character. Then running the output and the original file. Obviously I got a lot of broken scripts, my point is self writing software is possible, automated, well thought out edits are a long way off.
- skgoa 8y ago> Once we have self writing software, everything else on the grid comes for free! Because self-writing software can produce force fields...