timtyler comments on The Curve of Capability - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 05 November 2010 12:35:54PM 1 point [-]

Nanotechnology is thus far following the curve of capability, and there is every reason to expect it will continue to do so in the future.

May be minorly off-topic: nothing Drexler hypothesised has, as far as I know, even been started. As I understand it, the state of things is still that we still have literally no idea how to get there from here, and what's called "nanotechnology" is material science or synthetic biology. Do you have details of what you're describing as following the curve?

Comment author: timtyler 06 June 2011 07:27:53PM *  3 points [-]

May be minorly off-topic: nothing Drexler hypothesised has, as far as I know, even been started.

Perhaps start here, with his early work on the potential of hypertext ;-)