simontlbt
Re:Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal emp...
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @12:04PM (#49818153)
At least we still have a functioning democracy over here. We can still complain about this specific issue if it matters to us.
Re:Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:20PM (#49486589)
OpenAI / Sam Altman is probably even shadier than musk
Re:Simulation Theory Misses the Point
on Monday March 23, 2026 @01:28PM (#47492516)
I dislike writing perfectly and english is not my first language.
I find using AI an efficient way to carry my thoughts to a wider audience.
I may rewrite it at some point using my own words.
The Necessity of Being | An essay beyond the simulation.
UBI Is the Wrong Answer to the Right Problem
Re:An Hypothetical Universal Assembler
on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:30AM (#35816994)
Core part of making a self-replicating machine. If you guys got questions let me know!
An Hypothetical Universal Assembler
Re:Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines (2004)
on Sunday April 18, 2021 @07:55PM (#26857770)
I've been thinking about self-replication for several years. You basically need a robot arm, a small foundery, the spining part of a lathe, a rolling mill to make metal sheet and copper cable. Some way to coat the copper cable (Don't remember) You can use the foundery to produce silicon carbide and graphite. You need a 2d motion system to move the robot arm (maybe 2). You need a system to expend the volume of the machine so that a machine can give birth to another machine. You can bootstrap from that. Initialy photolithography will not be include since you can buy something similar to a rasberry pi for like 2 $. Eventually the more you bootstrap you can create self-replicating factory like machines that can output entire cars from input code.
To fetch the raw materials you should use a form of symbiosis. I assume the raw materials are iron, silicon, carbon, copper, (Rasberry pi lol)
Just contact me If you got time/money to do that I will give you 3d sketches.
Also there is another process you might want to implement if you want to make solar panels. Personally I would just plug it on the grid (for earth based usage)
After that its mostly a job of good programming you want the part you created without new processes (ex: photolithography) to still work after the bootstrap process.