Fermi Paradox: The Nanotechnology Extinction Event

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1. Do more on dinosaurs please

2. John, I have a theory I've been pondering for some time. Basically it states that your last name explains your facial hair style choice of the infamous "goatee". An alternative scenario is that your biology simply doesn't allow the facial hair to grow in certain places and thus forcing this goatee upon you.

3. Such a great episode, thank you for the great show!

4. Wouldn’t this be considered as a filter event.
   We’re no longer under natural evolution processes. Our evolution is now technological driven. Transhumance is our future imo.

5. Liiiiiiive

6. this is it.

7. Borg or facebook.hmm decisions decisions

8. Your videos have helped me sleep for years. Even before it was a thing.

   I thought i was weird. But then i realised your work was helping a lot of people. I love the real science of space. But its also perfect for sleep.

   Thanks for your work

9. We must rally the Godier army to save our fearless leader from the scheming opossums.

10. The concept of grey goo is the scariest of all thought experiments. It can simultaneously solve the Fermi paradox and create a new branch of the Fermi paradox.
    It takes many forms as well, like the movies "The Blob" / "Monsterblood", or The Cube of Mystiverse/Exurb1a where an interstellar malware entices humanity to create "it" and "it" quickly takes over the invention rate and wipes us out together with the universe. It rewinds time to find itself back in the helpless position of being a kitchen appliance, unable to warn humanity to not wake the malware, until it cares no mores. As the universe blinks out of existence the malware simulates a whole universe for all the life it has snuffed out.

11. Ecofagy, word of the day.

12. Nano machines, son

13. One ringy dingy, two ringy dingy. Yes, have I reached the party to whom I am speaking?

14. A great 'Idea' will NOT always give you the desired results. I said this decades ago, even before the internet, that scientists will cause the demise of 'Earth', and it's coming more evident today than before. It's out of our control until technology realises that humans are required to keep things evolving. Without humans it will all eventually come to a halt…..Full Stop.

15. Rage against the singleton!

16. i love you john no homo

17. Isn't life molecular nanotechnology? Each cell is a nanobot. But any nanobot is limited by the laws of nature. It needs resources, energy and protection from the elements. Life on earth is an endless struggle for resources after all. Maybe artificial nanobots could be made more efficient in some ways, but it will have the same fundamental limitations as living cells. A related danger is the possibility to create new diseases that will wipe out humanity. Lots of countries have bio-labs that are experimenting with such things already. That is more of a concern imo.

    An "emperor AI" is scary but an AI would not be a god, it would also be physically limited by available computing power, energy, and so on. And we are already subjugated to crazy emperors and billionaires that are using us and destroying the planet for their own selfish reasons, if it's a metal robot or a meat robot in charge doesn't make much of a difference to the people at the bottom.

18. Adding more tech to the environment is like more junk in the oceans, and if plastic and pollution and heavy metals weren't bad enough. Although with intelligent design there could be made biodegradable nanotech to do certain positive things to undo the negative things the Anthropocene period has deposited into the landscape.
    Better than that what if humanity suddenly gained a conscious conscience, possibly via Nano-genetic-brain enhancement tech or sudden global evolutionary brain unfolding that changed entire species intelligence… and the resultant understanding that humanity was the problem that needed be excised from the environment to restore balance. But smartly allowing for native aboriginal peoples to continue to exist on the planet as a natural part of the natural biosphere. All else removed immediately, everything destroyed; bridges, buildings, dams, airports, nuclear reactors. and relocated to Mars or another dead life planet to further humanities technological ways. A realised idea that the Earth is a unique natural biological sanctuary in the galaxy and should remain closed for business. Now that would be the act of an intelligent species.

19. Uncle John is a pumper. This man does a lot and listens to his audience. Cheers John.

20. Nanomachines, son!

21. Well, I think we humans should destroy all life on Earth including the microbes – just to show them who's boss!

22. You scare me

23. Love him @1.25x

24. Could be I've seen to many sifi shows but self replicating bots never work out well. =)

25. Love the SCP Illiterated music!

26. What would be worse: A world with AI that we humans had to fight so that we could survive OR a world with an AI that would help us but only if we were nice to it first? "I'd like to withdraw some funds" "Say pretty please".

27. I for one welcome our new Nano Possum overlords

28. I for one think the stock footage of identical robots standing in formation as the camera scans to the left, landing eventually on a likely nefariously motivated self aware drone… You know, that one that plays numerous times in most AI related YouTubery? It takes like half a dozen times before the version with the evil bot looks into the camera. I'm tired of seeing it.

29. So benderama? Got it.

30. Wouldn't a Nanobot be composed of hundreds of billions of atoms? Like today's CPUs are composed of millions of transistors?
    Sure it would be small to us, like one salt crystal from your shaker, but from an atom's point of view it would be mountain sized.

31. If you like this dude you should watch some of his videos from the past like top 10 why aliens would invade

32. Hi! I'm here for the grey goo! Oh here it is! It tickles! Wait a minu…

33. Now I know how to say "this amazing universe in which we live" in possum language! This channel is so educational.

34. What if we’re already the singleton and just don’t realize it?

35. Anyone make the mgs:revengeance joke yet?

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