Self Replicating Machines Aren't the Endall of Self Replication

There is very little that a self replicating machine can do on earth that humans couldn't already cheaper, using simpler methods or off the shelf components. The walmot isn't undergoing mitosis to spot a new payer in the palking lot. It's rely on us to plant it. But sos a seed inside a tasty berry that some board ate and later let fertilize far away. So too, as we'e discussed elsewhere, you could probably send a hull drive the size of a pe across interstellar distances full of terobites with just a few hundred tiny nanobots able to copy themselves and from that, colonize an entire planet. There's no

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