RE: Two papers worth reading. Re: [wta-talk] Specific areas lacking advancement

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 11:51:59 MDT

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    Brett Paatsch wrote,
    > I think the link to Robert Bradbury's paper on Protein Based Assembly
    > of Nanoscale Parts should work.
    > http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/Papers/PBAoNP.html
    >
    > To get to Aubrey de Grey's paper on An engineer's approach to the
    > development of real anti-aging medicine try.
    > http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/sens/manu16.pdf

    There are excellent examples of scientific work. As you say, even if they
    turn out to be totally wrong, they are based on real facts. They don't just
    quote Moore's law and extrapolate dates from there. They don't estimate the
    size of the human brain compared to a disk drive and extrapolate the
    arrivals of human uploads at the same time as large-enough disk drives.
    This is exactly the kind of real work I am talking about. However, everyone
    needs to realize that this kind of work proceeds a lot more slowly than the
    hype that is easier to produce!

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