self-reproducing

Judges are appointed by committee, so it's a self-reproducing bureaucracy.

Berlusconi: Undone by La Dolce Vita? Michael Ledeen 2011

But it is true that the younger generation will be faced with the problems of self-reproducing technologies in a way we haven't had to deal with yet.

Michael Crichton discusses his book Prey 2010

In fact, building on the honoured tradition of multiple curva peligrosa signs as well as those self-reproducing dobles, some alerts are lavish in number and admonition: tope en 500 metros, says the first sign, tope en 300 meters, says the second, tope en 100 meters, tope en 50 meters.

Free riding the roads of Mexico 2010

In fact, building on the honoured tradition of multiple curva peligrosa signs as well as those self-reproducing dobles, some alerts are lavish in number and admonition: tope en 500 metros, says the first sign, tope en 300 meters, says the second, tope en 100 meters, tope en 50 meters.

Free riding the roads of Mexico 2010

In fact, building on the honoured tradition of multiple curva peligrosa signs as well as those self-reproducing dobles, some alerts are lavish in number and admonition: tope en 500 metros, says the first sign, tope en 300 meters, says the second, tope en 100 meters, tope en 50 meters.

Free riding the roads of Mexico 2010

Incidentally, science fiction has also predicted the development of self-reproducing robots designed to hunt down and destroy the self-reproducing robots that are hunting down and destroying all life.

Matthew Yglesias » Spitzer: Let’s Condemn the Human Race to Slavery and Extinction 2009

The mathematician Stanislaw Ulam gave von Neumann advice on how to make his self-reproducing machine simpler.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

To this end, he devised a “self-reproducing automaton,” a robot that was afloat on a sea of its own components, just as living things on Earth thrive and abound among the chemical building blocks of life.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

If we combine braneworld cosmology and cosmological natural selection, then we obtain a scenario in which self-reproducing universes not only evolve by natural selection, but in which they collide and interact.

Archive 2009-01-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

We (or our grandchildren) will be rich enough to deal with it (using the wealth created by self-reproducing factories descended from today's fablabs, 3D printers, and robotic tech generally; nano is nice, but not necessary).

OPEC and Global Warming, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009