True, but it would have to be an exceedingly black swan to result in evolutionary-like mutations rather than simple annihilation.
First, annihilation is good enough—a destroyed nanobot fails at making “error-free clones of itself until the heat death of the universe”.
Second, all you need to do is to screw up the error-correction mechanism, the rest will take care of itself naturally.
True, but it would have to be an exceedingly black swan to result in evolutionary-like mutations rather than simple annihilation.
First, annihilation is good enough—a destroyed nanobot fails at making “error-free clones of itself until the heat death of the universe”.
Second, all you need to do is to screw up the error-correction mechanism, the rest will take care of itself naturally.