From: Michael Anissimov (anissimov@intelligence.org)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2006 - 06:55:22 MST
Kevin Osborne wrote:
>http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/03/09/nanobiobot/
>
>"Nanofabricated animats may be infinitessimally tiny, but their
>electrons will be exactly the same size as ours -- and their effect on
>human reality will be as immeasurable as the universe. Like an
>inverted SETI program, humanity must now look inward, constantly
>scanning technology space for animats, or their progenitors. The first
>alien life may not come from the stars, but from ourselves."
>
>
Summary and general impression at
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/
Overall reaction: it's good that someone is discussing unpopular, new
existential risks in mainstream fora
-- Michael Anissimov http://intelligence.org/ Advocacy Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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