Comments on: I do Not Like the Idea of Nanomachines Being Able to Self Replicate http://generallordisimo.com/2008/06/04/i-do-not-like-the-idea-of-nanomachines-being-able-to-self-replicate/ pushing the end times since 1984 Thu, 24 May 2012 22:28:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: kaen http://generallordisimo.com/2008/06/04/i-do-not-like-the-idea-of-nanomachines-being-able-to-self-replicate/#comment-962 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:09:43 +0000 http://generallordisimo.wordpress.com/?p=608#comment-962 I doubt we’re at the stage of this being a problem, that nanobots could replicate at a destructive level outside laboratory control. Hopefully, if we ever do get such a machine, we will be able to devise a chemical to ‘kill’ the ‘bots, if anything else build another nanite (preferably one that wouldn’t similarly self-replicate uncontrollably) to destroy the offenders

]]> By: Joshua http://generallordisimo.com/2008/06/04/i-do-not-like-the-idea-of-nanomachines-being-able-to-self-replicate/#comment-821 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:00:37 +0000 http://generallordisimo.wordpress.com/?p=608#comment-821 Self-replication and control are not mutually exclusive. You could tell the nanomachines to double five times then stop.

However, it’s possible that some terrorist group may try to destroy the world by telling their nanomachines to never stop replicating themselves. However, I think that enough people may have good intentions for their nanomachines that there would be more nanomachines on the side of good than evil. Of course, the fallout from constant nanomachine battles wouldn’t be pleasant (as in Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age, where the air becomes unbreathable whenever such a battle occurs).

Anyway, my point is that we will have a blue goo to protect us from the ‘grey goo’ scenario.

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