Self-replication is only dangerous because it creates more physical "stuff" to cause harm, exponentially fast. But the exponential is the dangerous part, not th

Self-replication is only dangerous because it creates more physical "stuff" to cause harm, exponentially fast. But the exponential is the dangerous part, not the replication. A software program replicating itself might seem dangerous until you realize that it's limited by the hardware of the single machine it runs on, so you can only really call it one total "organism." Otherwise a fork bomb would have already killed the human race.