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From: nather@eddie.MIT.EDU (nather@astro -- just visiting)
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Subject: Re: Simulation eating mips
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Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 13:19:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 15 13:19:14 1987
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> If you don't get too serious about it, the philosophical implications are
> striking...
> 
> At the point that we are using our fastest computers to design new
> computers, we have reached the point that the computers are self-repro-
> ducing--in fact, self-evolving.  We exist in some bizarre symbiotic
> relationship with them, but it's the computers that are reproducing now
> with our help.  And, of course, adding AI to the CAD work and robotics to
> the assembly process only carries it further!  Too trite for good sci-fi
> material, but reality is sometimes like that.
> -- 
> Dick Dunn    {hao,nbires,cbosgd}!ico!rcd  (NOT CSNET!)   (303)449-2870
>    ...I'm not cynical - just experienced.


Well, if we can't use it for SF, maybe a rock tune entitled

    Ahm jest a biological bootstrap, baybeee,
    Workin' for a CPU ...

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