Re: National Nanotechnology Initiative

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Aug 27 2000 - 22:16:02 MDT


Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 02:36 PM 27/08/00 -0700, Gina wrote:
>
> >http://www.nano.gov/
>
> So frustrating to find that the names Drexler, Merkle and Freitas are
> nowhere to be found in this 144 page document.

Guess the whole theory of "Be public and open, so that you have some
influence in how things go" turned out to be a load of horse hockey.
Nice-sounding theory, didn't work in practice. Drexler gambled and
lost.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/home.html
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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