[extropy-chat] Wired article on Drexler

Emlyn emlynoregan at gmail.com
Mon Sep 27 05:28:15 UTC 2004


On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 16:04:46 +0800, Sean Diggins
<sean at valuationpartners.com.au> wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of "Hal Finney"
> Sent: Sunday, 26 September 2004 2:35 PM
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> Subject: [extropy-chat] Wired article on Drexler
> 
> <snipped>
> 
> My opinion, as I have stated here before, is that when reduced to these
> terms, Drexler loses.  He has the burden of proof here.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> And rightly so.
> It falls within the "extraordinary claims require extraordinary
> proof"....statement which is rightly used by all skeptics.
> 
> 
> Sean

Why isn't all of terrestrial biology usable as proof? It makes a
pretty solid proof of concept as far as I'm concerned.

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