From: Dan Clemmensen (Dan@Clemmensen.ShireNet.com)
Date: Wed Jan 20 1999 - 19:50:40 MST
EvMick@aol.com wrote:
> Dan@Clemmensen.ShireNet.com writes:
> > As a reminder of what all this ia about, I feel that an SI
> > is needed to control nanotech, and that nanotech without an
> > SI will lead to the destruction of humanity.
>
> If I had nanotech I'd do two things relatively soon.
>
> 1. Upload. (thereby making time irrelevant)
> 2. Leave. (so what if it takes a long time to cross interstellar
> space...just slow down my "clock-cycle")
>
> Were there others with similiar ideas as mine (it COULD happen) then humanity
> would disperse. A dispersed target is extremely difficult to destroy.
>
Unfortunately, nanotech by itself doesn't enable uploading. Uploading
requires solution to s lot of other problems. It's a whole lot easier
to implement a humanity-destroying scheme.
Fortunately (at least from my perspective,) an SI will almost certainly
precede nanotech anyway. If not then if I personally can acquire nanotech,
my first project will be an attempt to build an SI by running the best AI
programs on huge nubers of nanotech computers, in a desperate attempt
to protect against nanotech catastrophe.
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