From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 15:22:20 MST
Billy Brown wrote:
>
> A good system would be able to store a significant reserve of pre-build
> nanobots, and would be able to co-ordinate their efforts and build
> replacements on demand (within the limits of your body's energy supply, of
> course). That should make you pretty much immune to small doses of any
> invader that isn't dramatically more advanced than it is (although it won't
> help much if you fall in a vat of disassemblers).
Robert Freitas doesn't like nanomeds that dissipate more than a certain
amount of energy; I don't recall what the exact ceiling was, but I think
it was the major limiting factor.
The assassins don't have to obey the rules.
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sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://pobox.com/~sentience/beyond.html
Member, Extropy Institute
Senior Associate, Foresight Institute
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