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150 – The Procrastination Equation

The Bayesian Conspiracy

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Nanotechnology

There was definitely a video where they I think he had some kind of power suit that he was testing and definitely people were memeing it. Advanced nanotech, the artificial sort, not biology, should be able to copy itself with digital fidelity through thousands of generations. Only a small number of generations will pass before they hit the resource wall. Limited resources are not a sufficient condition for evolution. You need frequent iterated death of a substantial fraction of the problem to free up resources. He says it's possible that less than one full generation might pass between when the goo ate the earth and when the sun died.

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