
The Skeptics Guide #856 - Dec 4 2021
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
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Xenobots Can Self Reproduce
Researchers were interested in find a form of the xenobots that would be better able to have sustainable scinematic self replication. So they turned to an artificial intelligence simulator. They came up with a form that looks amazingly like a packman. It can gather up, like sort of herd, these stem cells into into the same shape and essentially make a copy of itself entirely out of external feed stock. The next question becomes, nl, what's the practical value of this? What can you do with them? W to which my first answer is, we don't have to answer that question. We're just learning about how stuff works"
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