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That’s a weird statement coning from a self-replicating automaton that that meets many of the criteria required of a B-vN machine.
by matthewdgreen 3y ago
That’s a weird statement coning from a self-replicating automaton that that meets many of the criteria required of a B-vN machine.
- krapp 3y agoExcept for the criteria that would let you could launch me into space and let me survive drifting through the radioactive vacuum for thousands or millions of years without harm, then allow me to self-replicate using any arbitrary matter I happen to encounter (as opposed to sexually with another member of my species, which is how humans normally replicate) then allow my progeny to repeat the process without significant failure over countless generations. You know.. all of the actually difficult (thus far impossible) criteria and complexity that would required for Von Neumann machines to work in practice.
- matthewdgreen 3y agoYou think building self-replicating machines that can build themselves from a handful of common chemicals is the easy part? I think you’re very badly estimating the difficulty of that problem.