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I did not enjoy this frenetic buzzword laden tale, I had assumed the ending would be nano-bot infiltration of the worlds population for fine grained c2c and was
by yownie 5y ago
I did not enjoy this frenetic buzzword laden tale, I had assumed the ending would be nano-bot infiltration of the worlds population for fine grained c2c and was even disappointed there.
Would not recommend.
- karmakaze 5y agoThanks, I specifically looked to see if this sort of comment was here. Not finding one would mean that there's a fair chance that there's some well-founded with plausible details sci-fi writing.
- FeepingCreature 5y agoI believe gwern deliberately did not go for nanobots because they're kind of unrealistic, or at least have a reputation for being implausible, on a purely physical level. As such, centering AI risk around nanobots would have taken away from the actual threat, rampant intelligence.
- adastra22 5y agoI'm wondering why you believe this? Especially when you yourself are a collection of nano machines with much harder design constraints than the artificial variety.
- FeepingCreature 5y agoThat's precisely why. While there's a lot of room for design improvement in complex systems, it seems likely, or at least more arguable, that nature has largely cleared out the low-hanging fruit for single-celled organisms.
- adastra22 5y agoAll of engineering is a counter example. We have a fiendishly hard time replicating the precise lift mechanism of flying birds (this is still an active are or research), yet we have designed and built the Boeing 787 and SR-71. Life is an existence proof that atomically precise nano machines are possible, but it is not in any way a demonstration of their limitations any more than birds represent the epitome of heavier than air flight.
- FeepingCreature 5y agoCorrection: I read up on the story to refresh my memory, and Clippy does use a form of nanobots. I was mixing it up with another story, that just used a timed hyperlethal pathogen.