Re: [Sci.nanotech] Re: Best Programming language for AI in Nanobots

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:37:19PM -0000, rhooker123@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Each nano-bot can only to a tiny amount of work, and being small it is

That's why there are so many of them.

fragile and will be difficult to transport. Thus transporting

Your logic is broken. No, a nanomachine can be much hardier
than bacteria spores, and can be readily transported as
powder or suspension.

trillions of little nano-bots to a site of production, where all the
material and energy needed for self-replication exist would such a
waste of energy as to go beyond the energy used in the process.

Your math is broken.

Also since these things will likey be destroyed in massive numbers,

That's why there are so many of them.

will need to exist is vastly differnt numbers to do their work, and
will be very hard to keep count of or estimate I can't imagine a better

Computers can count just fine, and in fact even bacteria colonies
can tally quite well.

way than let them reproduce until they have enough to do the job.

Onboard self-rep capability is a significant bagage, and also a security
risk.

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