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[Anders Sandberg]

On 27/08/2012 01:40, Adrian Tymes wrote:
> But then those symbiotic machines, while they are working, are part of 
> the replicator insofar as they are helping to create the final 
> product. And, of course, if those symbiotic machines make sense, they 
> might make even better sense as permanent parts of the replicator - 
> say, as different heads.

90% of the time you will not be using the symbiotic machine part. It 
will be too specialised. So it would be cumbersome to actually have it a 
part of the core replicator. Think of it as one of Bruce Sterling's 
spimes instead: a smart object instantiated whenever needed, and then 
recycled (or stored out of the way).

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Faculty of Philosophy
Oxford University