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Anders Sandberg | Game Theory with Aliens on the Largest Scales

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How to Self-Replicate Robot Swarms for Building Infrastructure

Self-replicating machines are lovely because the first machine making the second machine is in contact with the second machine and has a very privileged ability to put in certain randomized bits into the second machine so it's linked either in using classical cryptography or even if we get the quantum cryptography. If you can store the qubits in the right way or distributing a kind of public private key pairs so you can make fairly strong links from parent machines to the senate machines but problem is usually for the infrastructure you actually want all the machines to talk to each other.

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