[extropy-chat] garage nanotech?

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

kevinfreels at hotmail.com wrote:
> I am an amateur rocket builder. Although it is not likely that I can 
> design and build an orbital spacecraft, I have built a rocket with a 
> primitive guidance system that "points" the rocket toward the sun and is 
> capable of mach 1.2 in my own garage. 
>  
> I am guessing that before assemblers become a reality, it will be 
> possible for people to start creating things at the nano scale in their 
> garages. Most likey it will be simple stuff. Call it amateur nanotech.
>  
> When will this type of technology become available?

Six months before the end of the world.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence