[extropy-chat] Re: riots in France

[Samantha Atkins]

With material plenty do you think this is likely?  But wait, I  
thoroughly believe in the right to obtain and bear arms.  So we may  
disagree or which kinds of things are a problem. A nano-factory  
cannot produce anything it doesn't have a blueprint for.   That is  
one level of control.  Nanofactories could come with certain built-in  
restrictions giving another level of control.   The problems could  
also be addressed by something like the broadcast model proposed by  
Ralph Merkle (http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/selfRepJBIS.html).

Generally speaking I am more interested in empowering people and in  
fighting abuses they actually do commit  than in keeping them  
harmless by decreasing their abilities and access.

- s

On Nov 14, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Dirk Bruere wrote:

>
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> On 11/14/05, Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
> Please spell out the dangers you allude to.
>
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> Well, manufacturing weapons, explosives, bioweapons, wargasses etc
> That would do for a start.
>
> Dirk
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