From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Jan 06 1999 - 09:26:45 MST
"Billy Brown" <bbrown@conemsco.com> writes:
> Ah. I thought you meant accidental grey goo. Military action is indeed
> another matter, and analysis on the subject tends to be pretty naive.
>
> <putting on military theorist hat>
>
> I see two very different scenarios, depending on how fast the takeoff turns
> out to be:
>
> If we solve the automated engineering problem well in advance of the
> creation of the first assembler, then whoever first turns nanotech to
> military use instantly becomes the world's dominant military power. They
> will probably have a few weeks of lead time, and that's long enough to
> achieve such overwhelming dominance that the second nanotech power would be
> hopelessly outmatched.
Will they? On what assumptions do you base these predictions?
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