The “diamondoid bacteria” is just an example of technology that we are moderately confident can exist, and that a superintelligence might use if there isn’t something even better. Not being a superintelligence ourselves, we can’t actually deduce what it would actually be able to use.
The most effective discoverable means seems more likely to be something that we would react to with disbelief that it could possibly work, if we had a chance to react at all. That’s how things seem likely to go when there’s an enormous difference in capability.
Nanotech is a fringe possibility—not because it’s presented as being too effective, but because there’s almost certainly something moreeffective that we don’t know about, and is not even in our science fiction.
The “diamondoid bacteria” is just an example of technology that we are moderately confident can exist, and that a superintelligence might use if there isn’t something even better. Not being a superintelligence ourselves, we can’t actually deduce what it would actually be able to use.
The most effective discoverable means seems more likely to be something that we would react to with disbelief that it could possibly work, if we had a chance to react at all. That’s how things seem likely to go when there’s an enormous difference in capability.
Nanotech is a fringe possibility—not because it’s presented as being too effective, but because there’s almost certainly something more effective that we don’t know about, and is not even in our science fiction.