[extropy-chat] Re: riots in France

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 01:27:54PM -0800, Samantha Atkins wrote:

> With material plenty do you think this is likely?  But wait, I  
> thoroughly believe in the right to obtain and bear arms.  So we may  
> disagree or which kinds of things are a problem. A nano-factory  
> cannot produce anything it doesn't have a blueprint for.   That is  

I can readily provide you a blueprint for a desktop isotope enrichment
plant. Right to bear arms, sure. Nuclear arms, though? Ecovorous 
self-replicators? You can't brush off those a la toner wars.

> one level of control.  Nanofactories could come with certain built-in  
> restrictions giving another level of control.   The problems could  

Yeah, DRM from hell.

> also be addressed by something like the broadcast model proposed by  
> Ralph Merkle (http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/selfRepJBIS.html).

Broadcast isn't a safety precaution. Broadcast is incompatible with
locally asynchronous operations anyway.
 
> Generally speaking I am more interested in empowering people and in  
> fighting abuses they actually do commit  than in keeping them  
> harmless by decreasing their abilities and access.

We'll see the same proliferation issues as with nuclear power
today, only worse.

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