Re: Nanotech Arms Race

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Billy Brown wrote:
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> Do I really need to point out how unlikely that is? To get this genie
> machine you have to figure out how to make a fully sentient AI, then come up
> with a way to lobotomize it (presumably by tinkering with its goal system).
> Even if that happened, it won't be a week before someone decides to free
> one.
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Your fundamental point is completely correct and we are in violent agreement: I feel that nanotech without SI is essentially impossible.

please see:
http://bobo.shirenet.com/~dgc/singularity/singularity.htm which I wrote in 1996.

I thought that you had made an assumption of nanotech without SI. If you agree that nanotech->SI, then why discuss attack and defense?

I picked the Oort scenario because I felt that it was in range of a non-sentient altorithm that cou8ld be devised by a human. In my opinion, it's a great deal simpler than an upload. The high-level spec incudes:

• find comets.
• segregate metals and carbon
• compute balistics
• construct shells
• construct simple (!) machinery (fusion reastors, mass drivers, etc.)

Plus a few trivial details :-)

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