Survivability of machine w/o human -- a thought experiment
Imagine from today one, human stop maintainnig machines, could machine
continue to work by its own? If so, how long? The answer I got is yes,
and for arbitrarily long time. In the manufacturing process of machine,
there is no such steps that cannot be done by machine itself, the only
step that machine cannot be gauranteed to do by itself is designing, or
say creativities in solution. But that's not the point, the point is
once human give a good enough robust enough design of machine, it can
last a very long time by itself. What does this imply? Thie imply two
things, first it implies the potential possibility of a crucial
elements in evolved intelligence -- autonomy, second it implies a
possibility of symbiosis between machine and human.
Possible scenarios of machine autonomy, and possible scenarios of
machine-human symbiosis underway. (no ethical questions, only
technical.)