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My current toy thinking along these lines is imagining a program that will write a program to solve the towers of hanoi, given only some description of the problem, and do nothing else, using only fixed computational resources for the whole thing.
I think that's safe, and would illustrate useful principles for FAI.
An earlier comment of mine on the Towers of Hanoi. (ETA: I mean earlier relative to the point in time when this thread was resurrected.)
Are you familiar with Hofstadter's work in "microdomains", such as Copycat et al.?