Re: non nanotech assemblers

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon May 04 1998 - 04:17:46 MDT


John K Clark <johnkc@well.com> writes:

> 1) The parts a macroscopic assembler uses would be very expensive, the parts
> that Nanotechnology uses, atoms, are very cheap.

Well, that depends on if your assembler uses prefabricated parts like
lego-blocks, or if it is something that uses (say) sand.

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