Re: Nano Morality


Well I do suspect that Nanotechnology will bring back the age of
powerful governments, with the collapse the global trade economy and
the work economy it will be necessary for the State of some form to
come in. Of course in a post scarcity society it is interensting to
think about what the state will be.

Firslty as for some kind of moral conventions to be held, I just point
to the present situation with virus production, its best to build two
firewalls between your networks and run 2 scanning packages rather than
trusting some convention.

As for when Nano is coming about, I think it will clearly be after the
Singularity, and the single largest concentrate of power will be in the
Machines, and if we build them right they may have the storage and
processing capacity to look over the nano-makers.

As for people following the ruls, yah when a 14 year old kid can ask
for a high speed entirely safe flying scooter, and floating palace, and
army of flying slave robots and get it from a box we are going to have
humans who want to follow the rules because they are clear.

The Diamond age will have two determining factors we can't really
understand yet: post-scarcity and the Singularity. I just hope that
the Sinuglarity is a moral one, something more on the line of Iain M
Banks than T2. As for post-scarcity, I would hope that the end of want
creates a tolerant anarchist state, where damage is simply impossible,
do to the inbuilt moral rationality of computer who can think all the
ideas every human has ever had in a second. Gvien the single goal of
the preservation of humanity and the planet, the the reduction of want
and aggression, one of the typical computers of 100years from now will
be able to work out every possible outcome from any given even, and
asighn the level or harm or benefit to different levels of humanity and
the planet with a statistical certainty, and thus it will have a deeper
understanding of morals than we ever can.

Humans have short visitons, its rare to meet one who can see 40 years
in the future. During the dot bomb I found it impossible to get
educatied MBAs to think for one second about what HTTP was and how it
might change society in maybe 10 years, you think these leaders are
going to agree anything.

Nano is coming, we need to build a fail safe, a non-human fail safe.
Its probably impossible for a computer system to track any possible
human threat, but it can control every nano maker, and it can probably
be made that all nano-makers will need to log in in order to work, the
Internet could be like air for them.


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