2003-07-06 Nanotech, grey vs blue recursion life as some recursive grey goo vs blue goo thing: grey goo is the wet nanotech fear that out of control disemblers turn all of matter into more disemblers: the grey goo itself*. drexler proposed 'blue goo' as a police nanotech. the grey goo and blue goo battle it out. okay, so you get the situation, and the blue and grey goo get in an arms race of increasing complexity in order to win the battle one way or the other. in the end the battle transforms into: greater complexity (intelligence) versus time (senesence). that is, somehow these physical things change into an axis of complexity and an axis of entropy. god knows how. and then, if you lived in that world, it would be just like the original world, and then grey and blue goo could be reinvented, and so on, all the way down. * i think this is nonsense. stuff which is already assembled is valuable: putting stuff into position requires tellic transformations which means there will inevitably be side-effects to be throw away: wastage. you might as well do assemblage-on-demand (just-in-time nanotech) on energy efficiency grounds, which means you wouldn't have standalone disemblers. the assemblers would know what to make and find stuff mostly in that form as components. minimal disembly. ** also nonsense because it's not just the interface of the world that are important, it's everything: its position, its distance from the universal substrate.