https://titotal.substack.com/p/diamondoid-bacteria-nanobots-deadly

I wrote this article a month or two ago, thought people here might be interested. Drexler-style nanotech research appears to be effectively dead at the moment.

Oh, and Yudkowsky responded to the article with characteristic obliviousness:

I broadly endorse this reply and have mostly shifted to trying to talk about “covalently bonded” bacteria, since using the term “diamondoid” (tightly covalently bonded CHON) causes people to panic about the lack of currently known mechanosynthesis pathways for tetrahedral carbon lattices.

  • @saucerwizard
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    61 year ago

    Drexler dropped diamondoid for iron pyrite like, a decade ago afaik.

    • @titotalOP
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      21 year ago

      Do you have any links to this, out of curiosity? I looked a bunch and couldn’t find any successor projects.

      • @saucerwizard
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        31 year ago

        Drexler’s blog - which might be gone now, which I was reading over a decade ago. I wish I could be more specific sorry. Yud hasn’t read anything since Nanosystems it seems like.