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.
Bonus: I love the person in the comments who is effectively shouting, “A MILLION SUPERINTELLIGENCES! NANOTECH POSSIBLE! DEBATE ME! I’M VERY SMART!!!” into the void at this point.
Light LEAKS through the CRACKS. My mind is BRIGHTER than it EVER was. THE HIGHER I RISE THE MORE I SEE.
then again look at the way these people actually talk:
the Cultist Simulator quote is significantly more sane than “nah I disagree, a million AI superintelligences can just poof their way into existence regardless of magical nanotech, infrastructure, the speed of light, or any other physical limitations on the amount of compute we can practically fit into one space”
e: fucking “you’ll see”, these people are convinced the rapture is almost here
There should be a cultist simulator mod where the principles are the TREACLES components. Expeditions are deep dives where you fend off scientific consensus to find contrarian blog posts as relics. Followers can take damage from information hazards and must be healed by adderall or nootropics.
…fuck, I like this so much I might look up what it takes to mod cultist simulator later today
One of the languages you can learn is “incorrect japanese”