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When I first read this, didn't sound like much. But after just thinking about it for 30 seconds, it would be a HUGE benefit for human kind IMO. It's the realization of first principles thinking. We could tap into fundamentals of how ANYTHING we create works. And furthermore, once you represent this chain in a graph data structure, it opens open immense (AI) possibilities for further optimization and prediction.

Where would you start though? On software level, I can imagine how this could work, based on genetic algorithms where offsprings evolve by sharing the weights of their neural networks from parents. But self-replicating hardware is quite challenging isn't it?

Ah man, I knew someone was gonna point to Kenneth Stanley here:)

Sometimes we just need a single variant of such fundamental services that just "works", but today we, in a very wasteful manner, get hundreds of variants each of which is trying to steal some percentage of the pie. Yeah sure thats how capitalism works and competition fuels improvement, but I think its also ridding us on bringing much more users under a single umbrella to maximize the interactions.

There's certainly a lot of grace, especially in today's consumption mindset, in repairing a physical device. I hope you can monetize it someday (or maybe not if it will take the fun out of it)

I think you get me:)

I was afraid it would boil down to this indeed...

actually, Matlab is still the thing depending on the domain you are working with. I don't get the hate towards Matlab generally from CS people. Maybe because it's paid?