Р.Фрейтас. Проблема Серой Слизи.
Р.Фрейтас. Проблема Серой Слизи.
Изначально эта статья была опубликована в апреле 2000 года под названием
«Некоторые пределы глобальной экофагии биоядными нанорепликаторами, с
рекомендациями для государственной политики». "Some Limits to Global
Ecophagy by Biovorous Nanoreplicators, with Public Policy Recommendations."
Оригинальная версия вышла в апреле 2000г. Здесь приводится сокращённая
версия с сайта KurzweilAI.net от 20 марта 2001г.
Краткое содержание.
Введение.
Угроза серой слизи делает одну вещь абсолютно ясной: Мы не можем себе
позволить определённого рода аварии с реплицирующимися ассемблерами.
Серая слизь определённо была бы печальным концом человеческих
приключений на Земле, значительно худшим, чем огонь или лёд, и при этом
она могла бы произойти из одной-единственной аварии в лаборатории.
Угроза экофагии.
Серый Планктон.
Если конроль не будет вестись около морского дна во время основного цикла
репликации нанороботов, то естественное отношение числа живых клеток к
числу нанороботов окажется больше на много порядков величины, что
требует более тщательных усилий по подсчёту. Осуществляющие подсчёт
нанороботы могут быть использованы для обнаружения, отключения,
опрыскивания или разрушения устройств серого планктона
Серый лишайник.
Колонии грибов и водорослей в симбиозе, известные как лишайники
(которых некоторые называют формой подвоздушной биоплёнки) находятся
среди первых растений, которые начинают расти на голом камне, помогая
формированию почвы путём разъедания скал [55]. Микробные сообщества
литобионтов, такие как корковые скальные лишайники, проникают в
минеральные поверхности на глубины до 1 см, используя комплексное
растворение, селективный транспорт и процессы рекристаллизации, иногда
называемые термином «биологическое выветривание» [56].
Злонамеренная экофагия.
Благодарности:
The author thanks Robert J. Bradbury, J. Storrs Hall, James Logajan, Markus
Krummenacker, Thomas McKendree, Ralph C. Merkle, Christopher J. Phoenix,
Tihamer Toth-Fejel, James R. Von Ehr II, and Eliezer S. Yudkowsky for helpful
comments on earlier versions of this manuscript; J. S. Hall for the word
"aerovore"; and R. J. Bradbury for preparing the hypertext version of this
document.
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A 104-second window for complete global ecophagy seems a bit fast for sufficient
reaction time to circumvent utter annihilation or at least a very near extinction. Are
you suggesting that some government agency stockpile enough varying 'goodbots'
to effectively combat any scenario?
Without prior stockpiling or amassing of goodbots, there will not be enough time
to respond and avoid severe damage to the world's biomass - which includes us.
Where will they store such masses and how much is enough? Who then will be in
control of the purple button to release the goodbots? What is the chance that these
goodbots and/or badbots will engineer a way to recombine as well as replicate,
becoming camouflaged and/or unstoppable, much like HIV and other recombinant
viruses?
Now, I realize the 104-second window was the fastest conceivably plausible, today,
or when you wrote this article, but, as we progress faster than most can track,
what's to stop the use of microorganisms present in the crust and many others that
we have not mapped yet, deeper down?
I appreciate your article, for the very fact it has allowed me to rest somewhat
easier, yet I feel not even the surface of this rock has been scratched. Your article
proves that the threat is real and I question the efficacy and strategy of those who'd
prevent it. If the defense strategy cooked up works anything like the proposed
missile defense system, we are doomed to extinction.
Life's Force,
Scott M. Potter