Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> writes:
> >
> > On the lighter side, I'd suggest buying a copy of _Nanosystems_.
>
> You mean _Liber N_?
>
> As an aside, have you noted how often we refer to it as some kind of
> bible? We better get more fundamental nanotech volumes out beside
> _Liber N_ and _Liber NM_, or we will start to look like some hermetic
> order revering the sacred scriptures :-)
It *is* a bible. Drexler put a huge amount of work into making the book
nearly perfect. If anyone cares to admonish me for admiring perfection,
then they can take a meter-scale walk off a nanometer-scale pier.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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