12.28.06
Brian Wang: Considering Military and Ethical Implications of Nanofactory Level Nanotechnology
Brian Wang: Considering Military and Ethical Implications of Nanofactory Level Nanotechnology [KurzweilAI.net] (“Nanofactory-level nanotechnology could make current weapons systems obsolete and make genocide and super-oppression easier. So the economic bounty from nanotechnology should be used to reduce motivations for conflict. For example, if nanotechnology makes a nation’s economy grow at 24% per year, in three years, that nation will have twice as much stuff; they would have less incentive to attack an equal-size opponent and try to take their stuff.”)