steven0461 comments on The Sacred Mundane - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 March 2009 09:53AM

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Comment author: steven0461 25 March 2009 09:43:45PM *  1 point [-]

Now you're saying they're awesome because they're big. The point was to find examples of things that are awesome even though they aren't big.

Comment author: pre 25 March 2009 09:52:34PM *  3 points [-]

Oh, then microchips? Writing "IBM" in individual atoms with a scanning electron microscope? Nano-motors for nano-machines? Richard Hammond was on the TV the other week with a probing scanning electron microscope writing his name on a strand of hair. Awesome.