[net.space] Tipler"s argument

claus (10/21/82)

	In regard to constructing self-replicating robots -
how can it be done??  It seems to me that to build such a robot
the most advanced technology must be used, but for that robot
to reproduce it must incompass all of that technology.  Some
examples of this are IC masking, steel production, material
refinement, etc.  If we could develope such a machine all of
our work would be done and we could just go along for the 'ride'.
I feel when we reach the point of being able to produce such
a machine we will have the ability to do far more productive
things and such a machine would ill never be built.