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“Drexler’s Nanotech Software” by PeterMcCluskey
Two months ago I attended Eric Drexler's launch of
MSEP.one. It's open source software, written by
people with professional game design experience, intended to catalyze
better designs for atomically precise manufacturing (or generative
nanotechnology, as he now calls it).
Drexler wants to draw more attention to the benefits of nanotech, which
involve large enough exponents that our intuition boggles at handling
them. That includes permanent health (Drexler's new framing of life
extension and cures for aging).
He hopes that a decentralized network of users will create a rich
library of open-source components that might be used to build a nanotech
factory. With enough effort, it could then become possible to design a
complete enough factory that critics would have to shift from their
current practice of claiming nanotech is impossible, to arguing with
expert chemists over how well it would work.
Drexler hopes to gamify the [...]
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Outline:
(01:24) Protein-based nanotech versus Diamondoid-style
(02:52) Nanotech Risks
(03:55) Awareness
(05:22) Who would we convince?
(06:32) Weighing the Tradeoffs
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First published:
December 2nd, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cKucz3rQvrbxoeq4o/drexler-s-nanotech-software
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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By LessWrongTwo months ago I attended Eric Drexler's launch of
MSEP.one. It's open source software, written by
people with professional game design experience, intended to catalyze
better designs for atomically precise manufacturing (or generative
nanotechnology, as he now calls it).
Drexler wants to draw more attention to the benefits of nanotech, which
involve large enough exponents that our intuition boggles at handling
them. That includes permanent health (Drexler's new framing of life
extension and cures for aging).
He hopes that a decentralized network of users will create a rich
library of open-source components that might be used to build a nanotech
factory. With enough effort, it could then become possible to design a
complete enough factory that critics would have to shift from their
current practice of claiming nanotech is impossible, to arguing with
expert chemists over how well it would work.
Drexler hopes to gamify the [...]
---
Outline:
(01:24) Protein-based nanotech versus Diamondoid-style
(02:52) Nanotech Risks
(03:55) Awareness
(05:22) Who would we convince?
(06:32) Weighing the Tradeoffs
---
First published:
December 2nd, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cKucz3rQvrbxoeq4o/drexler-s-nanotech-software
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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