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Record W2274955000 · doi:10.2514/1.a33409

Are Self-Replicating Machines Feasible?

2016· article· en· W2274955000 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Spacecraft and Rockets · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicModular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceActuatorContext (archaeology)ElectronicsResource (disambiguation)Electrical engineeringEngineeringArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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Recent developments in three-dimensional printing technology have introduced the prospect of self-replication in the context of robotic in situ resource utilization on the moon. The value of three-dimensional printing lies in its potential to implement universal construction. A universal constructor is a machine capable of fabricating any physical product given an appropriate program of instructions, suitable raw materials, and a source of energy in an appropriate form. Such physical products include a copy of itself; a universal constructor is by definition a self-replicating machine. A step in this direction is represented by the RepRap three-dimensional printer that can print copies of its own plastic components. The three-dimensional printing of actuators and associated control electronics would represent an existence proof that an appropriately designed robotic three-dimensional printer system would constitute a universal constructor. In this paper, preliminary attempts have been outlined to develop self-replicating machines by addressing the three-dimensional-printable actuator and electronics aspects within the materials limits imposed by the moon. It is concluded that physical self-replicating machines are within reach. This lunar infrastructure offers space-based geoengineering solutions in the short term and solar power satellite solutions in the long term to the global climate crisis.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.497
Threshold uncertainty score0.244

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.220
Teacher spread0.209 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it