[extropy-chat] pest-devouring automaton

[Dan Clemmensen]

As I understand it, the robots are scavengers, not hunters. They find 
and eat dead flies rather than killing live flies. Still, It's a start.

> Samantha Atkins
> *Subject:* Re: [extropy-chat] pest-devouring automaton
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> Oh man, carnivorous robots. What a concept. Now our "mind children" 
> can potentially compete for food, eh? At least that is how the 
> paranoid may see it.
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> Wouldn't a nice little fleck of some radioactive isotope be maybe a 
> touch more preferable than instilling hunting patterns (presumably) 
> and the ability to digest biological creatures?
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> - s
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