From: "Jack Park" <jackpark@verticalnet.com>
SlashDot today has a few comments regarding that article in relation to a
web site on nanomedicine:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/12/0928201&mode=thread
Perhaps of greater immediate peril to those of us building knowledge-based
systems is the topic of this thread about a recent patent:
http://technocrat.net/952758993/index_html
and the patent is here:
http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?&pn=US06031537__
Jack Park
> From: Jon Winters <winters@obscurasite.com>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Found a story this morning on /. that is related to some of the things we
> have been talking about...
>
> Found this in my morning news sweep. I'm looking forward to reading his
> full 25 page article tomorrow. We covered the possibilities he mentions
> in the bootstrap class that I have been taking.
>
> Checkit:
> http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-03/12/215l-031200-idx.html
>
> Now is the time to consider all theese issues so we can prevent an
> accident in the future.
>
> A few suggestions that were made in our class were to make the self
> replicating machines in such a way that they can only replicate in certain
> controlled environments that do not exist in nature. (while being flooded
> by X-rays for example) If replicators get released into the wild they will
> die off in one generation.
>
> Mutants have me worried. Researchers are considering mutation and natural
> selection so that nano machines can evolve and self optimize. Care must
> be taken to prevent them from mutating the security measures mentioned
> above.
>
> I remember reading some stuff written by Tom Ray that talked about letting
> software mutate in the lab and then dis-abling its ability to reproduce
> when it is time to harvest the program and put it to use.
>
> Can the same concepts be applied to Nanotech?
> --
> Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/
> OpenVerse http://www.openverse.org/
>
>
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