From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 23:27:27 MDT
CurtAdams@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 9/8/02 12:39:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> Spudboy100@aol.com writes:
>
> >Hard radiation wrecking a carbon-70 based A.I. ? Remember, these
> >people (who knows?) are not made out of the deliciously gooey jellies
> >and jams that humans are made outta.
>
> I'm very aware of that. With present designs, wetware nanotech
> (us) deals with radiation damage far better than Drextech.
I'm not sure that's true, but in any case drextech (nanotech design of the
type proposed in _Nanosystems) is the nanotechnological equivalent of
vacuum tubes.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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