Vladimir_Nesov comments on How to get that Friendly Singularity: a minority view - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 16 October 2009 12:21:49PM -1 points [-]

Back in 1994, Drexler said we were ten to twenty years away from advanced nanotechnology.

It's a rephrase by Steven C. Vetter of what he understood Drexler said, requoted by John K Clark partly out of context, so it was probably a prediction of some other event instead. But yeah, the idea is probably stretched too thin to seek a consensus opinion.

Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 17 October 2009 02:07:41AM 2 points [-]

I have substituted a link to Vetter's original communication.