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Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata, Lecture 3 "Statistical Theories of Information" - Von Neumann, John | WIST Quotations
If you look at automata which have been built by men or which exist in nature you will very frequently notice that their structure is controlled to a much larger extent by the manner in which they might fail and by the (more or less effective) precautionary measures which have…