Re: Best Programming language for AI in Nanobots


On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:30:41 -0000
rhooker123@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
> >Still, it is NOT NECESSARY to design nanobots for self-replication.
>
> Well there is too much here to cover so I would like to concentrate on
> this point.
>
> I am very certain that though some nanobots may not have to reproduce
> to do their jobs a large number will and nanotechnology will require
> some degree of reproduction to be truely revolutionary.

Not at all - consider the possibility of a desktop nanofabrication
device that can produce (say) 1 litre per minute (feels like a reasonable
target spec) of nanobots to a given design with a library of proven designs
to choose from. So if you need an HIV cure you pull it up on the menu, select
the quantity and watch them pour out of the ouput tube.

The developers version would output in much smaller quantities
to a sealed test rig with programmable testing and have interfaces for
design work - or setting up evolutionary mechanisms and fitness tests.

This approach seems a lot more reasonable and easier to achieve
than making self replication a requirement for every nano scale tool. It
seems likely that if self replication is used then the majority of each
and every nano scale tool will be replication equipment which is bagage
that has to be carried to the work site and disposed of.

> When I need trillions of something I don't want
> to have to buy them,

Of course not - you want to make them on site - but that doesn't
require them to be self reproducing.

> I want them to make themselves every nano-scenario I have read assumes
> this.

Many people seem to have assumed that because Drexler mentioned
this approach in his first book this is the only way to do things.

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