Re: virus: Old stuff for fun

From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@cox.net)
Date: Wed Apr 14 2004 - 21:09:06 MDT

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    I can't, but I can offer the nanonuts some wanking material:

    http://www.walterwatts.com/images/nanomotor2.jpg

    Walter

    Dr Sebby wrote:

    > ...this is an interesting essay on nanotech reality, Walter. is there
    > anyone that can make a reasonable claim to the contrary?(supporting the
    > plausability of a self-replicating nanobot?)
    >
    > DrSebby.
    > "Courage...and shuffle the cards".
    >
    > ----Original Message Follows----
    > From: Walter Watts <wlwatts@cox.net>
    > Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
    > To: virus@lucifer.com
    > Subject: Re: virus: Old stuff for fun
    > Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:17:49 -0600
    >
    > Some sober thoughts concerning nanotechnology:
    >
    > http://smalley.rice.edu/rick%27s%20publications/SA285-76.pdf
    >
    > Keith Henson wrote:
    >
    > > Full blown nanotechnology makes even more complex ethical issues
    > > certain to emerge. Besides downloaded minds, we could have duplicate
    > > copies of people, artificial personalities (APs), if different from
    > > intelligences, special-purpose computer personalities created for some
    > > project, partly or completely independent fragments of minds, and
    > computers
    > > which identify themselves with buildings or machines. This is only a
    > small
    > > part of the list of entities we could be interacting with in the future.
    > > Some cases are small increments compared to the situation under
    > discussion
    > > here, and the ethical considerations are relatively obvious; but others
    > > require bigger jumps to analyze.
    > >
    > >
    >
    > --
    >
    > Walter Watts
    > Tulsa Network Solutions, Inc.
    >
    > "Reminding you to help control the human population. Have your sexual
    > partner spayed
    > or neutered."
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Walter Watts
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