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I read an article how microscopic nano-bot factories could possibly escape from whatever facility they were produced in and start to convert regular matter such as rocks, soil, human beings into nano-bots. Within a day, the earth would be one massive ball of nano-bots.
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i know what you're talking about, but it's just a lot of "if this happens, this could happen, and then this could also possibly happen, and then the world would be consumed etc" which is basically a very pessimistic view on the matter and a pretty unlucky 'problem tree' where EVERYTHING GOES RONG AND ESCALATES.
if, in the distant future, we
did get into nanobot mass production we would be fucking unbearably anal about absolutely everything due to the dangers present, the worst case scenario being similar to yours i'd assume. if one small problem has a possibility of occurring, we put precautions in to prevent that small problem ever occurring and evolving into a bigger problem. if it occurred anyway, we would have more chances to stop it as the problem grew worse and more obvious. we
would do something if a problem
did escalate to world-threatening level, the real question is would we be able to do enough?
personally i think yes. but i find the whole nanobot thing boring anyway, even when i was a kid. if you're going for the end of the world my interest is in cybernetic enhancements.
