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I just watched a Stargate Episode when Asgard can't beat the Replicator.

Look there's nothing cruvus with me!

In Horizon the catastrophic decision was to endow robots with the ability to draw energy from animal and plant matter, that's why they consumed all organic matter.

Self-replicating nanobots alone wouldn't cause the end of the world. To end the world you really need something that can consume resources many times faster than the entire biosphere combined- without forgetting that the biosphere includes us.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo

It is prudent to remember that all life, and even many things that aren't considered life, such as viruses, are powered by self replicating swarms of machines - made of proteins.

Self replication itself does not spell a crisis. It would have to be efficient, self-directed and most importantly, fast.

also an episode of black mirror w/ the flies and stuff