From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Tue Jan 05 1999 - 22:25:43 MST
> > Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> > > Nanotechnology is a wild card that could stay unplayed or enter the game
> > > at any time. Nanotech's first applications will be entirely destructive...
it is almost too sad to contemplate, but the grey goo scenario explains
as well as anything i have ever heard the baffling observation that the cosmos
are not buzzing with communications. the theory would be that whenever
any civilization discovers radio communication, that nuclear holocaust or
nanotech grey goo always result within 100 to 1000 years. {8-[
this, along with the prospect of an evidently open universe, are my
two biggest challenges in life currently. spike
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