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| Mar 25, 2020 at 20:12 | comment | added | NXTangl | @Stanislav - I think the solution here may be self-replication. Robots would copy themselves periodically; the ones which modified themselves into non-viable robots would eventually be consumed by robots that don't do that. Unfortunately, this leads to the opposite problem. | |
| May 31, 2010 at 1:50 | comment | added | Stanislav | This sounds like a very practical approach (limiting what Herr Robot can do), but it won't work once it becomes smart enough to re-engineeer its own construction, will it? A different analogy is this: suppose a government runs on axioms (ha!) for its legislative processes, starting with a constitution. The constitution permits self-modification in order to meet unforseen challenges. Are there constitutions that are guaranteed (or likely) not to 'halt'? This would be a state in which no more legislation is possible. (Such halting has actually happened at least once!) | |
| May 31, 2010 at 0:25 | history | answered | Dan Piponi | CC BY-SA 2.5 |