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Anonymous Wed Mar 6 02:37:26 2013 No.5587107 [Reply] [Original]

Will there ever be useful Von Neumann machines?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 6 02:39:10 2013 No.5587110 Look at yourself.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 6 02:40:41 2013 No.5587114 >>5587110 hahah

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 6 02:41:40 2013 No.5587117 File: 23 KB, 320x219, prevent-grey-goo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5587107

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 6 02:42:40 2013 No.5587119 File: 50 KB, 348x342, analysis.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5587110 >implying OP is useful

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 6 02:43:10 2013 No.5587120 >>5587110 I wouldn't call myself useful, or a replicator, but you have a point. >Will there ever be useful ARTIFICIAL Von Neumann machines?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 6 02:45:10 2013 No.5587124 >>5587120 Viruses have been artificially modified to do useful work.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 6 02:46:10 2013 No.5587129 >>5587124 Completely artificial. Built from scratch.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 6 03:03:41 2013 No.5587153 No, thats impossible.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 6 03:08:40 2013 No.5587161 >>5587153 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120919103138.htm