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Re:107 Nobel laureates sign letter blasting Greenpeace over ... by tgb on Thursday June 30, 2016 @09:32PM (#12013259)
I agree but also think that a self-replicating experiment is a different class of danger than a one-off experiment. If we get to self-replicating nanobots, I hope the level of caution there goes well beyond that of the Manhattan project.
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Re:107 Nobel laureates sign letter blasting Greenpeace over ... by mrep on Thursday June 30, 2016 @10:29PM (#12013512)
> If we get to self-replicating nanobots, I hope the level of caution there goes well beyond that of the Manhattan project.

We already have those and they are called viruses and bacteria for which we have pretty good defenses against them.

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Re:107 Nobel laureates sign letter blasting Greenpeace over ... by tgb on Friday July 01, 2016 @07:30AM (#12015199)
From-scratch nanobots won't be facing pretty good defenses. That said tinkering with viruses is scary too.
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