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That has nothing to do with nanotechnology.
by thfuran 2y ago
That has nothing to do with nanotechnology.
- baq 2y agonano paper clips aka grey goo scenario
- thfuran 2y agoThe paperclip maximizer was about AI misalignment. Grey goo is a notional self-replicating nanomachine. Paperclip goo is just a mixed metaphor.
- kbelder 2y agoIn fact, I often use paperclips to remove grey goo.
- adastra22 2y agoBesides the correct sibling comment that you are mixing metaphors (paperclip maximizer doesn't require nanotechnology or vice versa), gray goo is and always was an implausible boogieman. Mechanosynthesis processes operate under ultra high vacuum and cryogenic temperatures in industrial clean-room conditions, and bio-like “self-replication” is both inefficient and unnecessary to achieve the horizontal scale out that industrial part closure gets you. Such replicating nanobots, if they could even be made, would gum up really easily in dirty environments, and have a hard time competing against bacteria in any case (which are already your mythical gray goo).