[extropy-chat] Social Implications of Nanotech

[Emlyn O'regan]

Dan Clemmensen wrote:
> 
> Emlyn O'regan wrote:
> 
> >Dan Clemmensen wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>My guess is that these two effects taken together, along with the 
> >>inherent increase in strengh of due to atomic-scale 
> precision engineering,  can reduce the weight of 
> >>most devices by a factor of 100 (un-analyzed guess.) 
> Today's 1500KG SUV can be replaced  by a 15KG device with the 
> same capabilities.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >But by then, today's 80kg human will bw replacable with a 
> 800g avatar,
> >rendering the 15kg SUV absolute overkill.
> >
> >  
> >
> Well, yes, but the 1500Kg SUV was already absolute overkill as a 
> personal conveyance.  By the time we have an 800g avatar, we'll also 
> have a few other "trivial" changes. I figure an 80Kg entity 
> would simply 
> reconfigure dynamically into the appropriate vehicular form 
> to meet the 
> current need for transportation, in the rare cases where 
> there is a need 
> to actually go somewhere.

Too true. This is always the fun when talking post-singularity.

> 
> My apologies, but I did not start at the beginning of the 
> thread, so I 
> don't know the assumptions here. 

Neither do I. Just off on a tangent.

> Are we pre-SI or post-SI? 
> Pre-SI makes 
> most MNT very difficult for me to assume.

Self reconfiguring macro-scale systems based on MNT? I think you don't get
there without somewhere first accidentally tripping over a singularity or
two. 

Emlyn