{"id":150781,"date":"2022-11-22T09:47:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T15:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-santa-claus-machine"},"modified":"2022-11-22T09:47:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T15:47:54","slug":"the-santa-claus-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-santa-claus-machine","title":{"rendered":"The Santa Claus Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FmgYoryG_Ss?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: <a href=\"https:\/\/brilliant.org\/IsaacArthur\/\">https:\/\/brilliant.org\/IsaacArthur\/<\/a><br \/> Revolutionary improvements to automation and production may one day create machines able to produce almost anything, quickly and cheaply, and far faster and more varied than modern 3D Printers. Such devices are sometimes known as Santa Claus Machines, Cornucopia Devices, or Clanking Del-Replicators, and today we will examine how likely such technology is, how far off in the future they might be, and what impact they would have on society.<\/p>\n<p>Visit our Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isaacarthur.net\">http:\/\/www.isaacarthur.net<\/a>.<br \/> Support us on Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/IsaacArthur\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/IsaacArthur<\/a>.<br \/> or Paypal at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.me\/IsaacArthur\">https:\/\/www.paypal.me\/IsaacArthur<\/a>.<br \/> SFIA Merchandise available: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signil.com\/sfia\/\">https:\/\/www.signil.com\/sfia\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Social Media:<br \/> Facebook Group: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1583992725237264\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1583992725237264\/<\/a><br \/> Reddit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IsaacArthur\/\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IsaacArthur\/<\/a><br \/> Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Isaac_A_Arthur\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Isaac_A_Arthur<\/a> on Twitter and RT our future content.<br \/> SFIA Discord Server: <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/53GAShE\">https:\/\/discord.gg\/53GAShE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud: Episode\u2019s Audio-only version: <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/isaac-arthur-148927746\/santa-claus-machine\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/isaac-arthur-148927746\/santa-claus-machine<\/a>.<br \/> Episode\u2019s Narration-only version: <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/isaac-arthur-148927746\/santa-claus-machine-narration-only\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/isaac-arthur-148927746\/santa-claus-machine-narration-only<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Credits:<br \/> The Santa Claus Machine.<br \/> Episode 165, Season 4 E51<\/p>\n<p>Writers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-santa-claus-machine\">Continue reading \u201cThe Santa Claus Machine\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https:\/\/brilliant.org\/IsaacArthur\/ Revolutionary improvements to automation and production may one day create machines able to produce almost anything, quickly and cheaply, and far faster and more varied than modern 3D Printers. Such devices are sometimes known as Santa Claus Machines, Cornucopia Devices, or Clanking Del-Replicators, and today we will examine how likely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}