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by CuriouslyC 3226 days ago
But computers can't build themselves, nor can they repair themselves.
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neither can cars, but that doesn't stop cars from outperforming humans by some carefully chosen success criteria.

Nobody is going to measure silicon chips by their ability to self-replicate without external facilities. Your typical doomsday AI could just order more compute substrate from TSMC to take over the world. Which is in fact more or less what happens in TFA.