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DNA nanobots can exponentially self-replicate: Tiny machines made from strands of DNA can build copies of themselves, leading to exponential replication. Similar devices could one day be used to cr... (www.newscientist.com)
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DNA nanobots can exponentially self-replicate: Tiny machines made from strands of DNA can build copies of themselves, leading to exponential replication. Similar devices could one day be used to cr...::Tiny machines made from strands of DNA can build copies of themselves, leading to exponential replication. Similar devices could one day be used to create drugs inside the body

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[โ€“] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could also have a copycat funded by terrorists or whatever. Just because they build safeguards doesn't mean the next person will. Fun.

[โ€“] ThoGot@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

It's not that they built safeguards but probably more that replication is finicky and you need these specific conditions for it to work at all
(but I don't have access to the cited paper)