self-replicating

Dna is the paper tape; the egg is the computer (or autofac, or self-replicating machine etc).

I don't understand what kind of AI/robotics we are talking about here: - weak non-self-replicating; - weak self-replicating; - strong.

The question is how likely they are to combine into something self-replicating.

Evolution is just a mechanical process that arises when you put self-replicating organisms in a noisy environment for a long time.

A true interstellar self-replicating probe is going to look like a fat molecule.

You can just launch some kind of self-replicating microbes capable of directing themselves into the forms of life you want to encourage over time.

What worries me is biological attacks, which differ by having a self-replicating component that can amplify even the tiniest exposure to an international emergency.

And then you get into idea like self-replicating factories.

It stands to reason that in the primordial soup, once one self-replicating molecular biology came into existence it pretty quickly consumed all the elements any others would need.

People don't realize how dangerous this stuff is, because - again, except from natural diseases - we've never had to deal with a self-replicating technology before.

Moreover, life on Earth proves little about the nature of life anywhere else - for example what type of self-replicating biology might exist in the high pressure environment of a gas giant?

I just think that there is a very interesting question about how we get from primordial soup to self-replicating cells that we don't have a good answer for yet.

So all we hear about is a "consensus" when that consensus is really just a self-replicating group of believers.

> So all we hear about is a "consensus" when that consensus is really just a self-replicating group of believers.

(Oh, and if Perl is a "dinosaur technology", Java, C++, and C are "pre-life self-replicating molecule" technologies.

I am still shocked that Elon Musk seriously believes in the pseudosciency "well Google has gotten better so obviously we will build a self-learning self-replicating AI that will also control our nukes and also be connected in a way and have the capabilities to actually really kill all humans." Meanwhile researchers can't get an AI to tell the difference between birds and houses.