A government funded total effort could not design nanotechnology or are you saying because a present day nanotech rush would be accomplished a team of elite scientists and engineers and near future AI tools, it’s not “the government”? (The government being made of elderly leaders and mountains of people who process administrative procedures. Were a nanotech rush to succeed it would be accomplished by a “skunkworks” style effort with nearly unlimited resources)
Just kinda confused, because “the government” has not meaningfully tried in this domain. A true total effort would be at large integrated sites, it would identify potential routes to the goal and fully fund then all in parallel for redundancy. You would see rush built buildings and safety procedures and most federal laws would be waived.
As I understand it, NNI essentially gives separate university labs small grants to work on “nanotechnology” which includes a broad range of topics that are unrelated to the important one of a self replicating molecular assembler.
Presumably a reasonable outside view would be this effort will not develop such an assembler prior to 2100 or later.
If it became known that a rival government had nearly finished a working assembler and was busy developing “kill dust” that can make any human in earth drop dead on command, you would see such an effort.
A government funded total effort could not design nanotechnology or are you saying because a present day nanotech rush would be accomplished a team of elite scientists and engineers and near future AI tools, it’s not “the government”? (The government being made of elderly leaders and mountains of people who process administrative procedures. Were a nanotech rush to succeed it would be accomplished by a “skunkworks” style effort with nearly unlimited resources)
Just kinda confused, because “the government” has not meaningfully tried in this domain. A true total effort would be at large integrated sites, it would identify potential routes to the goal and fully fund then all in parallel for redundancy. You would see rush built buildings and safety procedures and most federal laws would be waived.
As I understand it, NNI essentially gives separate university labs small grants to work on “nanotechnology” which includes a broad range of topics that are unrelated to the important one of a self replicating molecular assembler.
Presumably a reasonable outside view would be this effort will not develop such an assembler prior to 2100 or later.
If it became known that a rival government had nearly finished a working assembler and was busy developing “kill dust” that can make any human in earth drop dead on command, you would see such an effort.