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S1umL0rdAkr0n t1_iseqvm9 wrote
Nano bots! There's no place to run!
HollandJim t1_ises1ki wrote
Oh great. You want Moonfall? Because that’s how you get Moonfall.
Bierbart12 t1_isesmoq wrote
Finally. Nanobots will probably start a new age
AldoLagana t1_isewm1o wrote
I cannot wait to see the evil that this can conjure.
Mcboomsauce t1_isf66o7 wrote
Finally, something nobody wanted
xanthes94 t1_isfcabf wrote
From my understanding they don’t display complex behavior. Experiments ran with nano bots show that colony organisms that display “complex behavior” when moving is just a side effect of random motion. When you have a lot of things all performing random motion, they tend to organize because thermodynamics favors that they all move a certain way.
VoilaVoilaWashington t1_isfcbzj wrote
Profits, uh, finds a way.
VoilaVoilaWashington t1_isfdaal wrote
Not really. The nanoparticles will only perform a single way when combined that way, so it's basically just a human lining up dominos to knock over in an artistic way.
mister____mime t1_isffk2b wrote
Eaten by a swarm of nano bots sounds horrible but it’s kind of an exciting way to go if you think about it.
greg0525 t1_isfosk8 wrote
I see. So they are not able to do much more.
Fit-Mangos t1_isftvwk wrote
The dawn of replicators?
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Dave30954 t1_isgcf9e wrote
Ooh! That’s so cool, what is it that they all tend to do?
MilkofGuthix t1_isgr7cv wrote
Ahh similar to the game of life?
SkooksOnReddit t1_ish21dc wrote
Game of life is set on simple rules. What the commenter described is expending the least amount of energy.
UncleCornPone t1_ishdasm wrote
say goodbye to scalpels
get_it_together1 t1_ishfvx4 wrote
Sepsis is horrible and not exciting, but maybe that’s just me.
p-terydactyl t1_ishkw49 wrote
The complex behavior would be how we manipulate those simple processes kind of like binary, it's only 1 and 0 but we can manipulate it to do extremely complex tasks
SiliconeArmadildo t1_ishoc6x wrote
So we don't have to go 900 year into the future using a stolen Klingon time crystal to get programmable matter?
Senrien t1_ishtlvo wrote
You can't hurt me Jack
VivendusMoriendumEst t1_isi9llq wrote
Yeah the way I'd put it, the "behavior" is more a result of the physical interaction of the parts and environment rather than the active sensation-response-sensation system of ants and whatnot
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antiquemule t1_isiwrzx wrote
Yep. I am underwhelmed. The PR offices of MIT and Harvard love overselling this kind of stuff.
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