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Speaker says Tao had flagged that right initial conditions in a fluid could in principle create a self-replicating machine making smaller copies. HEARSAY

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One of the killer apps that Terry Tao had flagged previously was in principle you could if you created the right initial conditions in a fluid you could create a self-replicating machine that creates smaller and smaller copies of itself.