On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Tim <tim@little-possums.net> wrote:

That's one reason why I don't fear a "grey goo" scenario where
self-replicating nanomachines eat everything: most stuff is just too
damn useless to be worth the difficulty of processing it.

That assumes the grey goo is after minerals.

It's easy for me to imagine biological nanotech which starts reproducing expotentially, converting bodily components it was supposed to ignore into interations of itself. Because we've already got that: it's called cancer.

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