From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 02:48:00 MST
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Anders Sandberg wrote:
> And if it turns out that everything depends on everything else,
> requiring detailled simulation of every component to get the whole to
> work, then the assembler design is too brittle and should be rejected
> as flawed.
Conventional designs are brittle (i.e. they don't use emergent properties
of individual components) and can be easily modelled.
There is no fundamental problem to model a nanoassembler at atomic detail.
Current simulations are well past 10^9 atoms mark. I don't see any
problems with modelling a cubic micron or so.
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