On 6/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eugen Leitl</b> <<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org">eugen@leitl.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
You'd need a Manhattan project for machine-phase in any case.<br>Gadgets to gobble up the ecosphere would only require a few more<br>key extras.</blockquote><div><br>Oh, getting to machine phase will take far more than a mere Manhattan project; it'll be the work of generations for whole industries. No, a $100 billion engineering effort for man-eating robots is assuming machine phase already exists as a prerequisite. It would be counterable by a fraction of that investment in bot-killing robots.
<br><br>In reality, of course, the resources available to defense would be many orders of magnitude higher than those available to the would-be creators of the man-eating robots. (If you disagree, have a go at raising venture capital with the business plan "I'm going to design a robot that goes around and eats everyone", see how far you get.)
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