I was thinking more in terms of the original claim. Self replicating robots able to replicate quickly enough and flexible/​controllable enough to make a permanent colony on the moon for us.
I mean, I assume that was the original point instead of sending very large, slow Von Neumann machines to tile the moon with copies of themselves. That would be cool but probably not worth the expense, and it’d carry such an awful risk of backfiring on us.
I was thinking more in terms of the original claim. Self replicating robots able to replicate quickly enough and flexible/​controllable enough to make a permanent colony on the moon for us.
I mean, I assume that was the original point instead of sending very large, slow Von Neumann machines to tile the moon with copies of themselves. That would be cool but probably not worth the expense, and it’d carry such an awful risk of backfiring on us.