Could 10,000 humanoid robots keep an AI civilization alive for a decade?
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-06
teortaxesTex poses a self-sufficiency thought experiment: give a set of Astras (frontier agents) 10,000 human-level robots, ample spare parts, solar power, and an unmolested datacenter, and they might survive — possibly extending 10-15 more years. They won't build fabs; more robots might change the story.
Quoting Chase Browe pushes it further: could a smarter but fallible agent collective survive alone, build semiconductor fabs from a Bronze Age base, and accomplish what humanity achieved only as a collective? The thread probes the limits of AI self-maintenance and civilization-scale rebuilding.
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