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Extremely cool, but also terrifying. Anyone else read all the lore in the Horizon games? It was AI and nano-bot swarms that ended the world there, escaping from
by erulabs 2y ago
Extremely cool, but also terrifying. Anyone else read all the lore in the Horizon games? It was AI and nano-bot swarms that ended the world there, escaping from a research lab and consuming all organic matter on the surface of the earth. Once the nano bot swarm can build more nano bots…
Still, think of the cool robots we’ll get just before the end!
- zakki 2y agoI just watched a Stargate Episode when Asgard can't beat the Replicator.
- moffkalast 2y agoLook there's nothing cruvus with me!
- thebruce87m 2y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo
- caycep 2y agoalso an episode of black mirror w/ the flies and stuff
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y agoIn Horizon the catastrophic decision was to endow robots with the ability to draw energy from animal and plant matter, that's why they consumed all organic matter. Self-replicating nanobots alone wouldn't cause the end of the world. To end the world you really need something that can consume resources many times faster than the entire biosphere combined- without forgetting that the biosphere includes us.
- devmor 2y agoIt is prudent to remember that all life, and even many things that aren't considered life, such as viruses, are powered by self replicating swarms of machines - made of proteins. Self replication itself does not spell a crisis. It would have to be efficient, self-directed and most importantly, fast.