Re: Curse you, Eric Drexler

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sun Nov 25 2001 - 03:13:11 MST


On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 06:15:27PM -0900, John Grigg wrote:

> Anders, I was impressed by your Eliezer inspired artwork. I just hope
>I am in better shape then that skeleton when effective nanotech comes
>along. And I apologize for confusing you with Eliezer(and Eliezer with
>you!). Somehow the true authorship slipped my mind, and it had the
>sound of an Anders post to me.
 
No problem, although I got a bit annoyed by having my name in the
*subject* :-) But since it was quickly corrected, I have no problem with
it.

> Now, was your rendering of NANOTECH or MACROTECH?? You could beat
>someone unconscious with just one of those things! lol
 
Well, it is a rather symbolic picture, so the foglet is nanotech. The
nice thing about making pictures rather than scientific research is that
I do not have to take care with scale :-)

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