[ExI] 3d printers for sale

[spike]

>... On Behalf Of Charlie Stross


> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 10:28 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>> Got a 3D printer three weeks ago, set it to print a copy of itself.  
>> ...  Now I have over a million 3D printers, no place to put them all...

>...There's more than one way to build a 3D printer, and I suspect our first
fully self-reproducing ones will actually consist of a whole bunch of
specialised printing tools that each have different tasks.  -- Charlie
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If we manage to make a Matrioshka Brain, the first step will likely be to
create some kind of device which can create both an MBrain node and a copy
of itself.  These self-replicators can work in teams, where each team member
specializes in a particular component of themselves. 

spike