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You don't need to "metabolize useful energy out of concrete, sand, glass, and dirt" to have a nightmare scenario... Anything that can metabolize lots of kinds
by nnq 7y ago
You don't need to "metabolize useful energy out of concrete, sand, glass, and dirt" to have a nightmare scenario...
Anything that can metabolize lots of kinds of multicellular living matter could can do insane amounts of damage even if it's not a pathogen... for example agriculture is quite frail and we depend on it!
- fennecfoxen 7y agoThat's not really grey goo, in the typical use of the term; that's just a novel agricultural pest.
- freyir 7y agoa hypothetical global catastrophic scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating machines consume all biomass on Earth while building more of themselves It’s right there in the first sentence. Nothing about eating concrete or sand.
- m3kw9 7y agoCan’t create atoms out of thin air, maybe you can but that isn’t enough to replicate rapidly