[extropy-chat] Re: Nano-assembler feasibility

[Technotranscendence]

I haven't been following this discussion closely, but I feel an
incremental approach might be necessary here.  Why can't bacteria be
used as models of what needs be done to make a nanoassembler?  Yes, they
are not _universal_ nanoassemblers, but they do make more of themselves
as well as other things.  Can't one just use this as a rough
approximation of a nanoassembler specification?  (Hopefully, initial
non-universal nanoassemblers would be a bit less complex than bacteria.
Why?  At the very least one might eliminate non-essential functions and
junk parts.)

Regards,

Dan
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