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If only there were swarms of self replicating autonomous systems that can heal, recharge and defend themselves without input and adapt to new situations, while
by BiteCode_dev 4y ago
If only there were swarms of self replicating autonomous systems that can heal, recharge and defend themselves without input and adapt to new situations, while being stress tested for free for millions of years.
But I'm dreaming, certainly if it would have existed humans would have tried to leverage them a long time ago.
- bsaul 4y agoA Sci-Fi fan biology researcher friend of mine joked a long time ago that the culmination of cybertech is biotech.
- ben_w 4y agoSnark aside, as useful as the birds and the bees are, they've got their own goals, and those goals aren't always aligned with ours — hence the use of pesticides and insecticides, or indeed scarecrows, in the first place.
- BiteCode_dev 4y agoOf course but it's not like if collaboration, coercion, manipulation and environment crafting were ineffective tools to influence life. It used to be our fav tools, now we just don't go in that direction much anymore. We could study, teach, bread, terraform, integrate and so on at a much larger scale and with better tech. It's just... It doesn't look like a product.