Gram_Stone comments on Reducing Catastrophic Risks, A Practical Introduction

[Gram_Stone]

Thanks for this. I’m not sure why it hasn’t gotten more upvotes.

On technological safety, Freitas & Merkle’s Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines includes material on safety measures for self-replicating molecular-nanotechnological machines. He also remains a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing which runs the Assembler Safeguards Project for, surprise surprise, assembler safeguards.

Also, the emphasized words from the report seem superfluous:

Given how the size to which our civilisation could grow, and the number of years we could live, our main job, here and now, is to simply to make it through the next hundred.