Biology is very pro mutation. In biology, the data is stored on a medium with a moderate mutation rate. The there is no error correction, and many mutations make meaningful changes.
There are error detection schemes that can make the chance an error goes unnoticed exponentially tiny. You can use a storage medium more reliable than DNA. You can encrypt all the data so that a single bitflip will scramble all the instructions. If you are engineering to minimize mutations, and are prepared to pay a moderate performance penalty for it, you can make mutations that don’t quickly cause the bot to self destruct or damage the bot beyond its ability to do anything never happen, not once in the whole universe full of bots.
Biology is very pro mutation. In biology, the data is stored on a medium with a moderate mutation rate. The there is no error correction, and many mutations make meaningful changes.
There are error detection schemes that can make the chance an error goes unnoticed exponentially tiny. You can use a storage medium more reliable than DNA. You can encrypt all the data so that a single bitflip will scramble all the instructions. If you are engineering to minimize mutations, and are prepared to pay a moderate performance penalty for it, you can make mutations that don’t quickly cause the bot to self destruct or damage the bot beyond its ability to do anything never happen, not once in the whole universe full of bots.