> I quite agree that nuclear weapons are an easier problem than biological
> or nanotech weapons. The orginal poster said that if "the consequences
of
> failure" of nuclear weapons were the same as nanotech, we would all be
> dead. Not so, it is the nature of the technology, not the possible
> consequences, that determine the ease of control. I believe we are in
> violent agreement.
>
> steve
By "the consequences of failure" one means to say that control has failed.
Consequently, since we've failed to control nuclear weapons (Hiroshima,
Nagasaki), identical levels of failure in regard to nanotech or biotech
warfare would kill us all, since these latter technologies have such
killing power.
Stay hungry,
--J. R.
3M TA3
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Useless hypotheses: consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind,
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