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Look at the sentence in context. It is obvious that the author is referring to microscale machines, not nanoscale. And the statement he makes there is simply fa
by mistercow 4y ago
Look at the sentence in context. It is obvious that the author is referring to microscale machines, not nanoscale. And the statement he makes there is simply false.
- mannykannot 4y agoMy point is that the case against Drexler’s concept does not collapse because of this one mistake.
- mistercow 4y agoRight, which I already acknowledged.
- mannykannot 4y agoWell, you did indeed nominally acknowledge that this is only one detail, but then you continued by using this one technical error to cast doubt on the article as a whole! What were we supposed to make of that? There are cases where one apparently small issue is devastating (“who shaves the barber?”) but this is not one of them.