[ExI] Survival (was: elections again)

[Vladimir Nesov]

On Jan 2, 2008 6:51 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Vladimir Nesov wrote:
> > On Jan 2, 2008 5:45 PM, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> > > How will it get a MNT factory built in a week?
> > Usual example for this is bootstrapping from gene synthesis.
>
> I doubt even a hacked cell would be able to exhibit the level of
> molecular control that we're all hoping MNT will eventually bring. This
> is because biomolecular manipulation is built from amino acids and
> proteins, with a necessarily restricted possibility space known as
> organic- and bio- chemistry. Hopefully MNT will be able to do more.
>

Even if it proves impossible to make MNT bootstrap from synthesized
sequences directly, it provides a way to make programmable fine-tuned
machines which are highly scalable, after which you can construct
whatever you need in top-down manner. It solves quick infrastructure
setup problem without MNT, and then it can be used to develop MNT.

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Vladimir Nesov                            mailto:robotact at gmail.com