Thanks. These seem like good definitions. They actually set the bar high for your prediction, which is respectable. I appreciate you taking this seriously.
If you’ll permit just a little bit more pedantic nitpicking, do you mind if I request a precise definition of nanotech? I assume you mean self-replicating nanobots (grey goo) because, technically, we already have nanotech. However, putting the bar at grey goo (potential, of course—the system doesn’t have to actually make it for real) might be setting it above what you intended.
Self replicating nanotech is what I’m referring to, yes. Doesn’t have to be a bacteria-like grey goo sea of nanobots, though. I’d generally expect nanotech to look more like a bunch of nanofactories, computers, energy collectors, and nanomachines to do various other jobs, and some of the nanofactories have the job of producing other nanofactories so that the whole system replicates itself. There wouldn’t be the constraint that there is with bacteria where each cell is in competition with all the others.
Thanks. These seem like good definitions. They actually set the bar high for your prediction, which is respectable. I appreciate you taking this seriously.
If you’ll permit just a little bit more pedantic nitpicking, do you mind if I request a precise definition of nanotech? I assume you mean self-replicating nanobots (grey goo) because, technically, we already have nanotech. However, putting the bar at grey goo (potential, of course—the system doesn’t have to actually make it for real) might be setting it above what you intended.
Self replicating nanotech is what I’m referring to, yes. Doesn’t have to be a bacteria-like grey goo sea of nanobots, though. I’d generally expect nanotech to look more like a bunch of nanofactories, computers, energy collectors, and nanomachines to do various other jobs, and some of the nanofactories have the job of producing other nanofactories so that the whole system replicates itself. There wouldn’t be the constraint that there is with bacteria where each cell is in competition with all the others.