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

  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

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

    • ThoGot@lemm.ee
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      11 months 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)