Re: Army nanotech and scifi

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Mar 18 2002 - 05:45:26 MST


On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 09:22:34PM +0100, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
>
> A smart solution would require a worldwide nanoimmune system, but if you
> look at it en detail you realize that the presence of blue goo screws the
> ecology just as badly. (Even if you manage to install blue before someone
> starts peppering you with gray). Machine phase stuff can be in a dynamic
> equilibrium with each other, but unfortunately wet life winds up at the
> loser end.

What assumptions are you basing this on?

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