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2025-03-14 17:31:42

Farside on Nostr: Random lunchtime thought... Folks here are hopefully aware of the gray goo theory ...

Random lunchtime thought...

Folks here are hopefully aware of the gray goo theory where you build a robot whose purpose is to replicate smaller versions of itself.

It occurred to me that modifying that theory slightly would dramatically change the result.

What if you placed a replication limit on the initial program to say, 5,000 iterations so the final generation could be contained within a jar or some other small container.

And what if you extended the program so that they just sit there until given a signal which would trigger replication of versions of themselves that are twice as big, and do so for10,000 generations.

You would end up with a giant robot army that fits in your pocket!

Maybe a Sci-Fi buff can tell us what book has been written exploring such a concept.
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