I found this very interesting, and I appreciated the way you approached this in a spirit of curiosity, given the way the topic has become polarized. I firmly believe that, if you want any hope of predicting the future, you must at minimum do your best to understand the present and past.
It was particularly interesting to learn that the idea has been attempted experimentally.
One puzzling point I’ve seen made (though I forget where) about self-replicating nanobots: if it’s possible to make nano-sized self-replicating machines, wouldn’t it be easier to create larger-sized self-replicating machines first? Is there a reason that making them smaller would make the design problem easier instead of harder?
I found this very interesting, and I appreciated the way you approached this in a spirit of curiosity, given the way the topic has become polarized. I firmly believe that, if you want any hope of predicting the future, you must at minimum do your best to understand the present and past.
It was particularly interesting to learn that the idea has been attempted experimentally.
One puzzling point I’ve seen made (though I forget where) about self-replicating nanobots: if it’s possible to make nano-sized self-replicating machines, wouldn’t it be easier to create larger-sized self-replicating machines first? Is there a reason that making them smaller would make the design problem easier instead of harder?