In a message dated 4/26/98 2:46:40 PM, hanson@econ.berkeley.edu wrote:
>I realize this claim seems like a consensus among certain groups,
>but I still find it incredible, and share Curt's skepticism. If
>tommorow Monsanto found it had a workable simple assembler (which
>took 20 types of amino acids as inputs and could assemble any 3D array
>of such amino acids up to 1mm^3), I don't think they could build a super
>intelligence nor take over the world in a year.
In effect, Monsanto already has an equivalent to that assembler -
ribosomes. And, indeed, that hasn't allowed them to make super
intelligence or take over the world.
Received on Sun Apr 26 22:33:14 1998
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Tue Mar 07 2006 - 14:45:30 PST