From: Gina Miller (nanogirl@halcyon.com)
Date: Wed Jun 16 1999 - 15:01:42 MDT
May I request this DNA snail mail address?
About Zyvex I ws hoping to meet Jim von Ehr at the Forsight gathering, but
he was absent.
Nanogirl
>Doug Jones wrote:
>>
>> By the way, Eliezer, I have a question/quibble/objection to your
>> doubled doubling description of the singularity: it ignores hardware
>> development cycles. Certainly a fully functional AI could improve
>> its own software, but the runaway would be damped by the hardware
>> design and fabrication process- smarter code also needs faster
>> hardware to run at faster subjective speed.
>
>Do you know that there's an STM connected to the Internet? I don't know
>about protein-synthesis machines being connected to the Internet - but
>if you're willing to go through snail-mail, you can write a DNA
>sequence, email it to someone who mails you the DNA, then send the DNA
>to a protein synthesizer in, what, about a week? Probably less if
>you're an AI and you're willing to pay for FedEx overnight.
>
>Ever wonder if there's a back door into Zyvex's laboratory equipment
>somewhere, with a password only an AI could crack? That's what *I'd* do.
>--
> sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
> http://pobox.com/~sentience/tmol-faq/meaningoflife.html
>Running on BeOS Typing in Dvorak Programming with
Patterns
>Voting for Libertarians Heading for Singularity There Is A Better Way
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