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#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Secret of Life From Working at the Border Between Bits and Atoms

I learned why Vanoyman and Turing made fundamental mistakes. I learned how to solve many of the world's most important problems, which all sound presumptuous but are things I learned at that boundary. In computer science, there's a ridiculous taxonomy of about 100 different models of computation - they're all fictions. That is the only model of computation that's physical, everything else is a fiction. And so you can trace it all the way back to Turing's machine making this mistake between the head and the tape.

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