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Peter Gerdes's avatar

But that stuff has the very real chance to *itself* evolve into a threat while pre-equipped with their high tech level. I mean which is more likely to evolve into a threat. Pure chemical goop that's not yet alive or your replicating/repairing machine watchdogs/exterminators? I guess the later.

Doubtful you can build any single machine that will function correctly without repair or replacation after a billion or even a few million years and on that time scale even much less noisy processes than DNA copying are likely to have duplication/repair errors that risk changing their behavior especially for complex machines which must be capable of making all the intelligent choices to act with minimal direction.

So I still think you need extensive communication links merely to ensure they catch malfunctioning machines.

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Douglas Knight's avatar

You spent half of your post on this, but I did not get the point until I saw this comment. It would be useful to add this comment as an addendum.

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