Drexler's Nanosystems is now available online

MikhailSamin

This is a linkpost for https://nanosyste.ms

You can read the book on nanosyste.ms.

"Anyone who needs to talk AGI or AGI strategy needs to understand this table from Drexler's _Nanosystems_, his PhD thesis accepted by MIT which won technical awards. These are calculation outputs; you need to have seen how Drexler calculated them."- Eliezer Yudkowsky[1]

The book won the 1992 Award for Best Computer Science Book. The AI safety community often references it, as it describes a lower bound on what intelligence should probably be able to achieve.

Previously, you could only physically buy the book or read a PDF scan.

(Thanks to MIRI and Internet Archive for their scans.)

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MikhailSaminJun 15

Uhm, for some reason I have four copies of this crosspost on my profile?

EdoAradJun 1Moderator Comment5

I'm not sure either - there's some bug and I didn't manage to delete them. I've moved them to personal blog post and I'm alerting the technical team

EdoAradJun 14

(also - insert a grey goo joke)

Stephen McAleeseJun 51

This is a cool project! Thanks for making it. Hopefully it makes the book more accessible.