From: Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Date: Sat Sep 26 1998 - 01:28:09 MDT
At 08:08 PM 9/25/98 -0700, Damien R. Sullivan wrote:
>On Sep 25, 2:51pm, "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
>> and he doesn't sound like a crank, he didn't say anything I know is
false, so
>> I have no choice but to trust his conclusions - to default to Drexler on
the
>> matter of nanotechnology.
>
>Tangent:
>I haven't read it yet, but most chemists I know laugh. So I default to a
>neutral state: he may have some nice equations; they have actual experience
>with reaction chemistry.
>
Well, duh. Reaction chemists are absolutely right in that reaction
chemistry will NOT build an assembler. Indeed, the methods they know will
NOT create nanotech. And no chemist in their right mind would want to
create just one molecule of something.
I can buy blinders at any tack supply house, too...
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