Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Drexler's Nanosystems is now available online, published by Mikhail Samin on June 2, 2024 on LessWrong.
You can read the book on nanosyste.ms.
The book won the 1992 Award for Best Computer Science Book. The AI safety community often references it, as it describes a lower bound on what intelligence should probably be able to achieve.
Previously, you could only physically buy the book or read a PDF scan.
(Thanks to MIRI and Internet Archive for their scans.)
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