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by Blammar 1028 days ago
As long as humans maintain control of the chip fabs, and self-assembling chip tech is yet to be discovered, we are okay.
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If you loosen the time constraints, there is a compelling case for self-manufacturing vacuum tube systems. They're more resilient to space environments and easier to manufacture than their silicon counterparts. Who says Von Neumann probes need to be fast?