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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #279877 |
Good point. But I don't know that we can reverse engineer the device: for now, most computing gains still come from cheap transistors getting smaller and smaller, so we could see "wow those are some really tiny transistors" but that gives no clue how to make machines that create the tiny transistors.... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277252 |
I started to read this list and think "eh so there are a few transitions before the iron comes out so what" but by the times I get to 10kT unwinds his DNA I'm like "oh my gosh this is so much more horrifying than I had imagined." (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277234 |
If a stem cell goes cancerous it doesn't seem crazy that the host might grow lots of arms or ears. I'm not sure how to manage the transmission of *only* the stem cell, and not daughters. And, in this scenario, there is no real distributed cooperation among the cancer cells... most instructions still ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |