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That's actually one of my childhood fears. Just that they were live beings, not machines.
by nx 18y ago
That's actually one of my childhood fears. Just that they were live beings, not machines.
- tlrobinson 18y agoSelf replicating living beings? Wouldn't that cover just about all living beings?
- Dilpil 18y agoPretty scarey though aren't they?
- mechanical_fish 18y agoThis is another of those things that amuse me: People who think of tiny self-replicating nanomachines as a vision of the future, rather than as a reflection upon our mutual family history. I, for one, am pretty sure that I'm a colony of several trillion self-replicating cells, whose parts are self-replicating nanomachines. And that is an amazing realization. But not especially futuristic.
- Tichy 18y agoI also thought recently that grey goo is a very unlikely scenario. If there were a new kind of self-replicating naonmachines, they would likely also be subject to evolution and diversify into all sorts of colorful things, just like biological cells.
- nx 18y agoBut that multiply really fast. Like mitosis in 2 seconds.