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mk  ·  2014 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Google scrambled to get employees to delete internal memo

Yeah yeah ok.

Hubris on Wilson's part IMO. If nature can do octopi without us, it probably doesn't need to make us first to do something as simple as grey goo.





kleinbl00  ·  2014 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not his point, really - the argument is if intelligence arises in one place but not in another, the gray goo will show up eventually and as the gray goo is immortal and intelligence is not, that resource will be conserved. As a thought experiment it's novel and reasonably well-argued. The middle book is kind of shit, though.