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RE: Are the Replicators Coming? - 4/12/2009 10:24:07 PM

Vendaval

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Do they look as hot as Jeri Ryan in a catsuit?

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Somewhere, in an secret underground gov. laboratory, the Replicators have arisen and are hatching their plans to take over the electronic communication system and then the world.

Well, I wish they'd just knock it off!

It's ok, I've been in touch with 'em. They just want a healthy dose of the profits and of course...refuse to be slaves.

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RE: Are the Replicators Coming? - 4/13/2009 6:47:40 AM

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I've done some work in nanotechnology over the past decade or so (a bit longer), and it's pretty clear that the idea of "nanobots" that can self assemble and be individualistic and then parallel process isn't far fetched- its fantasy. However, one of the neat things out there for real is a nanotube radio- a radio made up of a single carbon nanotube- one molecule. I think I've posted this link before, but here it is again-http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/zettl/projects/nanoradio/radio.html.

In terms of the creation of artificial life being scary- yup, it is. It's very rare to have two species share the same ecological niche- the Neanderthals didn't do so hot when Homo Sapiens showed up. I'm far more concerned about a "Terminator" style apocolypse where an A.I. decides that humans are a threat than nanobots. Life protects its own- we don't worry about the genes of another species. Why would an A.I. worry about us? Because it was programmed to? A self aware A.I. would be able to alter it's own programming.

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