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		WalterBright on May 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Duff's device There could be emergent behavior in the distinct possibility that D becomes self-aware. I've had to reduce D's power at least once to thwart that.

Gibbon1 on May 26, 2020 [–]

There was a self aware version of lisp. You could feed it the program specification and it would write a 100% conforming program itself and run it. Unfortunately first time they fed the spec for a real project it outputted the words 'dear god no' and deleted itself.

And so here we are.

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