lsparrish comments on The Curve of Capability - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 05 November 2010 10:09:24PM *  4 points [-]

(cough) I'm sure Drexler has much detail on Drexler's ideas. Assume I'm familiar with the advocates. I'm speaking of third-party sources, such as from the working worlds of physics, chemistry, physical chemistry and material science for example.

As far as I know - and I have looked - there's little or nothing. No progress to nanobots, no progress to nanofactories. The curve in this case is a flat line at zero. Hence asking you specifically for detail on what you are plotting on your graph.

Comment author: lsparrish 05 November 2010 10:59:11PM 2 points [-]

There has been some impressive sounding research done on simulated diamondoid tooltips for this kind of thing. (Admittedly, done by advocates.)

I suspect when these things do arrive, they will tend to have hard vacuum, cryogenic temperatures, and flat surfaces as design constraints.