Based on you numbers, it would require around 10^26 J to convert all CO2 and this will take 10^9 seconds =30 years.
I like your argument anyway, as it clear that quick solar-powered diamond apocalypses is unfeasible. But if AI kills people first and moves its computations into diamonds, it will have plenty of time.
Also unsure why you would go for CO2 in the atmosphere as a source of carbon rather than more low entropy, easily harvested ones (like fossil fuels, plastics, or, well, biomass).
Eliezer’s scenario uses atmospheric CHON. Also, I guess Eliezer used atmospheric CHON to allow the nanomachines to spread much more freely and aggressively.
Based on you numbers, it would require around 10^26 J to convert all CO2 and this will take 10^9 seconds =30 years.
I like your argument anyway, as it clear that quick solar-powered diamond apocalypses is unfeasible. But if AI kills people first and moves its computations into diamonds, it will have plenty of time.
Also unsure why you would go for CO2 in the atmosphere as a source of carbon rather than more low entropy, easily harvested ones (like fossil fuels, plastics, or, well, biomass).
Eliezer’s scenario uses atmospheric CHON. Also, I guess Eliezer used atmospheric CHON to allow the nanomachines to spread much more freely and aggressively.