From: Ramez Naam (mez@apexnano.com)
Date: Fri Nov 29 2002 - 07:23:32 MST
From: Peter C. McCluskey [mailto:pcm@rahul.net]
> mez@apexnano.com (Ramez Naam) writes:
> >2) Assemblers make and break chemical bonds.
>
> For pure diamondoid systems, people who try to model this
> plan to mainly use the Brenner Potential,
Yes, but the bonds assemblers will be making and breaking will not be
pure diamondoid. The assembler itself may be (though I sincerely
doubt it), but it's environment will undoubtedly be a mixed bag of
stuff.
> >3) Perhaps most problematically, in at least some proposals
> > assemblers reproduce. This gets into an additional level
> > of modeling and simulation which I haven't even mentioned
> > up to this point. Essentially you start dealing with
> > population biology, an area where modeling is now being
> > applied but where our ability to predict exact outcomes is
> > essentially zero.
>
> Population biology? Computer virus designers frequently
> accomplish what they want without thinking about population
> biology.
Goodness. If the kind of control you are aiming for is the degree of
control virus authors have over their creations, then we have a very
very different idea of what responsible development methodologies for
assemblers are.
cheers,
mez
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