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timtyler comments on Eliezer's Sequences and Mainstream Academia - Less Wrong Discussion

99 Post author: lukeprog 15 September 2012 12:32AM

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Comment author: timtyler 16 September 2012 04:10:12PM *  -2 points [-]

You would need improvements in both software and hardware to compete with natural nanotechnology at its best.

Improvements in software would catalyse improvements in hardware - and visa versa. I think most of the parties involved are on the same page about all this.