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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Possibilities of a Pandemic

With the fab lab you could roughly make a bio lab then learn bio technology. That's terrifying because making self reproducing great goo that out competes biology I consider doom. Now how do you deal with that? Prior threats we dealt with command and control. You can't contain this it's already out you can't forbid as there isn't command and control, most useful thing is to provide incentives for transparency.

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