NihilCredo comments on The hard limits of hard nanotech - Less Wrong

19 Post author: lsparrish 07 November 2010 12:49AM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 06 November 2010 10:18:06PM 4 points [-]

That doesn't mean it couldn't be used to build threatening things, or threatening quantities of things, that can function in more normal conditions.

Comment author: NihilCredo 06 November 2010 10:51:08PM *  1 point [-]

True, though such things (NBC weapons, most likely) would not possess the particular type of world-ending unstoppability that science fiction gray goo does.