I wonder if creating nanomachines on Earth is going to be made even more difficult because the environment is already absolutely lousy with hostile autonomous nanorobots (bacteria)
@ayegill The way I always understood the argument is that nanorobots have a path-dependency that makes them
1. much less likely to arise naturally
2. much more resilient/strong/effective
(the talk is often of diamondoid structures which are purportedly far more robust against attackers, but require much higher energies/precision to be created)
but then again the relevant literature mostly eludes me
