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Anyone looked into von Neumann, Theory of Self Reproducing Automata (1966) far enough to see if there's anything more there than a book-length discussion of phy
by 082349872349872 2y ago
Anyone looked into von Neumann, Theory of Self Reproducing Automata (1966) far enough to see if there's anything more there than a book-length discussion of physical quines?
https://archive.org/details/theoryofselfrepr00vonn_0/page/n5/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/theoryofselfrepr00vonn_0/page/n5...
Lagniappe: https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1955-11/page/n71/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1955-11/page/n71/...
- drcwpl 2y agoNot to answer your question directly, but I think that book should be required reading for AI developers. There is a good summary on wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_constructor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_construc...