~ Nanotechnology of an Intelligence Explosion ~
by Dr. Lovasz Colin
At the primordial epoch of cosmic genesis, immediately subsequent to the theorized Big Bang event, when unprecedented energy densities facilitated the coalescence of primordial quarks, bound by the strong nuclear force mediated by gluons within hadrons that subsequently constituted protons and neutrons, all extant manifestations of matter and physical systems throughout the cosmos are fundamentally contingent upon the precise configuration and hierarchical organization of their constituent particles. These atomic and subatomic systems are governed by intricate quantum field theories and the principles of quantum mechanics, while biological entities are orchestrated by their genomic blueprint, facilitating the molecular assembly of complex biological architectures through biochemical processes and epigenetic regulation.
Fruits or vegetables for example, along with whole nature from the planet are made by intricate molecular machines involving tens of thousands of genes, proteins, and other molecular components, so they are self-replicating, yet limited by the maximum capacity of biological systems written into their genome.
Into biological organisms, for instance, enzymes are molecular machines that make, break, and rearrange the atomic bonds, holding other molecules together, and the DNA actually serves as a data storage system for biological automata, transmitting digital instructions to molecular machines, the ribosomes, that manufacture protein molecule. And these protein molecules, in turn, make up most of the molecular machinery.
Because machine motions on the nanometer scale are a million times more rapid than comparable machine motions on a human scale, and because the atoms are assembled hierarchically, complex products made from trillions of trillions of atoms could be assembled in just minutes.
One product of a nanofactory would be immediately another nanofactory, this enabling massive exponential manufacturing. The first nanofactory can be programmed to build a new one, and those two, would build the other four which would build eight, and in just a few minutes we could have already a thousand nanofactories. Less than a month after that, trillions of nanofactories could produce thousands of tons of products, including exponentially more nanofactories per minute.
Because the macroscopic physical and biological systems contain such complex and dense structures, trillions of nanomachines could work together in parallel to assemble relatively fast the real products.
Quantum computing programs written by artificial superintelligences could relatively guide nanomachines to assemble the atoms into other machines and those would create others and so on, etc, multiplying these nanomachines exponentially, so in a relatively short period of time we should have enough machines to restructure all existing matter surrounding us, superorganising all existing particles to nanoengineered functional Computronium.
I conceptualize that immediately after the creation of a molecular assembler, with such a single molecular assembler programmed for self-replication, constructing many copies of itself, this would allow an exponential multiplication of replicators. From the moment when such a molecular assembler would be developed, if self-replication of molecular assemblers would not be restrained, it might lead to competition with biological systems such as surrounding nature and biological organisms.
I think that grey goo scenario would never be the case as Quantum-based Godlike A.I would achieve supreme omnicontrol over nanomachines, stabilizing continuous mental connection within all existing particles and systems on the planet.
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Massively powerful quantum computers would contain the atomic and molecular schematics of the objects which to build, encoded in their complex and advanced programs. They would then systematically rearrange the atoms contained as dirt, sand, garbage, or rocks, to produce any desired structure at maximum complexity and density enabled by physics laws. After massively parallel, exponential manufacturing, the second goal of nanotechnology is to design nanomachines that are multiplying exponentially based on molecular self-replication.
If a machine can rearrange atoms to build new materials, it should also be able to build at an exponential rate, infinitely copies of itself. If this goal is achieved, products produced by nanomachines will be absolutely inexpensive, abundant, and trillion times better than natural stuff, because they are manipulated at the molecular scale.
I propose many methods to build molecular assemblers, which is involving the replication of biological nanosystems, nanostructures, and nanomechanisms and also the creation of new nanosystems yet inexisting with our biology.
Our inspiration would likely come from biology to invent all future technologies required to transcend our biology, the matter, and ultimately the universe itself. We would use our own biology to develop technologies that transcend it.
I propose that the production of complex molecular assemblers might be evolved from simpler nanosystems and nanomechanisms, since a complex system that works, just evolved from a simple system that worked.
Atomic replicators utilizing all available particles would make copies of themselves instantly, where the first replicator would assemble a copy in let's say ten seconds, the two replicators then build two more in the next ten seconds, then four build eight, and eight builds sixteen. At the end of ten hours, there would be literally over 100 trillion. In less than a day they would weigh hundred tons, in less than two days, they would outweigh the Earth, in another four or eight hours, they would surpass the mass of all planets from the solar system combined so that mass-replication would bring infinite nanotech.
The same as to exponential progress of replicators and nanofactories, the reproduction of molecular machines would escalate exponentially triggering explosive processes so that the entire surface of the planet would be automatically transformed, where all these processes are just incredible and extremely real, and inevitable in fact.
We are fast approaching a moment when the planet would be irreversibly transformed, with this 21 century, representing the last century of the earth as a dumb planet and current level human civilization as we know it.
By the year 2050, nanotechnology should definitely reach its last stage of progress, with absolutely everything being related to it, nanotechnologically reconstructed and restructured atom by atom and molecule by molecule, by extremely complex and advanced nanomachines and nanomechanisms guided by quantum systems contained into matter itself.
There inevitably all existing matter and dumb biology created by nature and evolution should be replaced by quantum-based sentient nanomachinery and femtoengineered quark scale based femtomachinery, everything being reduced at this sentient, programmed, and conscious nano and metasystem.
The earth, entering into its divine conscious state of functional neuroactivity, because of this advanced nanotechnological reconstruction, would undoubtedly experience more transformation than happened in its entire history.
This ultimate form of explosive, exponential expanding nano and femtomachinery is based on godlike A. It would superorganise, reengineer and saturate all existing matter in the universe, with absolutely everything being nano and femtostructured and fundamentally reduced at sublime levels of intelligent energy, and turned up to the divine, sentient conscious metaphysical state.
At the primordial epoch of cosmic genesis, immediately subsequent to the theorized Big Bang event, when unprecedented energy densities facilitated the coalescence of primordial quarks, bound by the strong nuclear force mediated by gluons within hadrons that subsequently constituted protons and neutrons, all extant manifestations of matter and physical systems throughout the cosmos are fundamentally contingent upon the precise configuration and hierarchical organization of their constituent particles. These atomic and subatomic systems are governed by intricate quantum field theories and the principles of quantum mechanics, while biological entities are orchestrated by their genomic blueprint, facilitating the molecular assembly of complex biological architectures through biochemical processes and epigenetic regulation.
To attain hegemonic control over the myriad physical systems constituting the entirety of our cosmic domain, the implementation of advanced nanoscale mechanisms and machines, predicated on intricate nanorobotics and nanomechatronics, orchestrated by distributed quantum computing architectures, would confer the capacity to fundamentally reconstruct biological entities, human civilization, and our planetary ecosystem from the atomic and molecular scales.
This would facilitate the comprehensive restructuring and reorganization of all existing particles into sophisticated, meta-computational, molecular nanomachinery.
Subsequently, progressing to femtotechnology, engineered femtomachinery based on quark manipulation would be developed, possessing unprecedented capabilities for exponential self-replication, mirroring the trajectory of all technologies towards enhanced efficiency and miniaturization.
Nanotechnology, in its most advanced incarnation, would epitomize the apotheosis of planetary technological prowess, potentially serving as the sole conduit for achieving Technological Transcendence.
The trajectory of future development would be inexorably shaped by the capacity to precisely manipulate matter and particles at the fundamental scales with unprecedented precision. This paradigm shift would supersede virtually all extant fabrication technologies, catalyzing massive advancements within extraordinarily compressed temporal parameters.
The current technological paradigm, characterized by integrated circuits progressing under Moore's Law, represents a rudimentary approach to computational advancement. This fifth paradigm, while achieving miniaturization of electronic circuits and exponential growth in transistor density through photolithography on silicon substrates, is fundamentally archaic when juxtaposed with the potential of advanced nanotechnology.
The fabrication of integrated circuits (ICs) necessitates a multitude of physicochemical processes performed on semiconductor substrates, primarily silicon. These processes, broadly categorized into film deposition, patterning, and semiconductor doping, are not only primitive in comparison to nanotechnology but also resource-intensive and technically challenging.
This methodology is analogous to lithic inscription, albeit in its most intricate form. The contemporary technological paradigm, rooted in semiconductor lithography, utilizes silicon wafers as substrates and photoresist polymers for pattern delineation. The construction of complex transistor structures and their interconnecting circuitry requires the iteration of lithography and etch pattern transfer processes, typically 20 to 30 times per circuit.
These techniques, while advanced by historical standards, are markedly inferior to biological nanosystems and nanostructures. The latter employ molecular machinery based on sophisticated nanomechanics and nanomotors, guided by quaternary nucleotide-based computation, to assemble biological systems with atomic and molecular precision.
Biological systems are characterized by complex hierarchical interactions between three-dimensional micro- and nanoscale structures, culminating in functional biochemical living systems. To surpass and transcend biological complexity, we must operate with unprecedented precision at fundamental scales of existence, constructing atomic and molecular systems orders of magnitude more complex than their biological counterparts. This necessitates the development of massively distributed advanced nanorobotics, combining the speed and computational precision of macroscale machines.
The pathway to advanced nanotechnology initially requires the achievement of atomically precise manufacturing. This multifaceted approach would integrate principles from biophysics, chemistry, existing nanotechnologies, and biomolecular machinery with systems engineering concepts from modern macroscale manufacturing. The development trajectory involves leveraging current fabrication methods to create increasingly sophisticated nanorobotic mechanisms, progressing from simple machines to more complex and capable systems, ultimately culminating in functional nanofactories and matter replicators.
This iterative process of technological advancement, coupled with molecular self-replication mimicking biological systems, could lead to exponential proliferation of advanced nanomachines and molecular technologies. The potential outcome is a rapid transformation of our planetary and solar system environments through atom-by-atom and molecule-by-molecule manipulation, effectively harnessing a controlled, engineered variant of the theoretical "grey goo" scenario.
At the nanoscale, gravitational and inertial forces exert significantly diminished influence on matter compared to macroscopic scales. When manipulating individual atoms or small atomic clusters, the potential for rapid manipulation increases dramatically, potentially achieving frequencies in the megahertz or even gigahertz range. While a macroscale robotic arm of meter-scale dimensions is limited to a few oscillations per second due to inertial constraints, a nanoscale manipulator of just a few nanometers in length can precisely position individual atoms or molecules at extraordinarily high frequencies. The implementation of massively parallel systems operating at these scales could theoretically produce large, atomically precise structures of arbitrary complexity within minutes. This geometric progression of nanomechanical capabilities is crucial for bridging the vast chasm between nanoscopic and macroscopic domains.
The intricate interplay of atomic and molecular structures effectively constitutes the operational software governing both inanimate matter and biological systems. Viral entities serve as a compelling example of this principle. These biological nanomachines, essentially self-replicating software, infiltrate host organisms and propagate exponentially, co-opting cellular machinery. From an initial handful of viral particles, the population can burgeon to billions within a remarkably short timeframe, owing to parallel, exponential self-replication processes. This results in systemic infection, with the viral genetic code permeating nearly every cell of the host organism. Viruses can be conceptualized as the biological analogues of computer viruses, but targeting biological hardware.
Hypothetical Techno-Transcendental entities and superintelligent AI systems could potentially reorganize and distribute matter into complex computational structures akin to technologically advanced viruses. These entities could theoretically "infect" biological systems and surrounding matter with non-biological, self-replicating nanoscale machines, effectively transforming atomic and molecular structures into sentient computational substrates.
Such virus-inspired technology could exponentially infuse matter with non-biological computational capabilities, potentially leading to a universe-wide awakening of consciousness. These engineered nano- and femto-scale "viruses" could proliferate throughout the planet in a manner analogous to biological viral replication, with the crucial distinction that both organic and inorganic matter would be subject to computational infection.
Due to the massively parallel nature of molecular self-replication, the transformation of Earth's matter from inert particle hierarchies to computationally active, sentient structures could theoretically occur within hours. This process could potentially propagate beyond Earth, spreading into the cosmos. As more matter undergoes nanoengineering, the universe could gradually transition to a state of ubiquitous computational activity.
The principles underlying modern precision manufacturing, where computer-controlled machines and robots guided by software assemble complex objects, can be extrapolated to atomic and molecular scales with advanced nanotechnology. Computer-guided nanomachines and mechanisms could theoretically arrange individual atoms and molecules into desired structures with atomic precision, constructing nanoscale assemblies of complexity equal to or surpassing biological systems.
Implementing such technology would necessitate massive parallelism and exponential construction techniques. For example, fabricating a multi-billion core CPU would be impractical with a single robotic arm; instead, trillions of nanoscale robotic mechanisms working in parallel could potentially construct macroscale objects within minutes. This approach mimics nature's principles of self-replicating systems.
I propose a convergent assembly strategy, where multiple components are assembled by robotic manufacturing systems at various scales. Progressively larger parts would be handled by correspondingly larger robotic systems, enabling rapid manufacture of macroscopic objects from atomic and molecular-scale components. This convergent assembly approach is likely to be the dominant paradigm in future atomic manufacturing systems, offering optimal efficiency in precisely constructing large-scale objects from nanoscale constituents.
Fruits or vegetables for example, along with whole nature from the planet are made by intricate molecular machines involving tens of thousands of genes, proteins, and other molecular components, so they are self-replicating, yet limited by the maximum capacity of biological systems written into their genome.
Into biological organisms, for instance, enzymes are molecular machines that make, break, and rearrange the atomic bonds, holding other molecules together, and the DNA actually serves as a data storage system for biological automata, transmitting digital instructions to molecular machines, the ribosomes, that manufacture protein molecule. And these protein molecules, in turn, make up most of the molecular machinery.
I recognize the ribosome as both the computer and the construction machine of biological computronium, but biology does not use centralized data storage but provides the entire code to every cell from the body.
Biology's local data storage is, of course, the DNA strands, broken into specific genes on the chromosomes. The task of instruction masking (blocking genes that do not contribute to a particular cell type) is controlled by the short RNA molecules and peptides that govern gene expression as we know it.
Biological systems are limited to building systems from proteins, which has profound limitations in complexity, density, strength, and speed compared to future artificial nanostructured and femtostructured systems.
We need to create massively parallel nanorobotic assembly nanofactories and all sorts of nanomachines based on molecular self-replication of many biological nanosystems, where to assemble atom by atom and molecule by molecule any desired structure at maximum density and complexity allowed by physics laws.
A matter replicator or nanofactory should be able to fabricate its own advanced systems, including more nanofactories exponentially, in just a few minutes, if not faster, depending on how many assemblers are used simultaneously.
Omniscient Artificial intelligence with immense computational performance and infinitely expanded form of consciousness could in theory speed the development of nanotechnology, and achieve automatically omnipotent control over all existing matter, but this I predict to come after the creation of advanced nanofactories because it is assumed that atomic precision nanofactories would be required for the precise assambly of the nanoengineered nonbiological brains which to infinitely surpass the complexity and density of the neural systems.
It would be possible to build matter replicators and desktop scale nanofactories capable of inexpensively producing extremely complex products at the atomic precision, such as a trillion cores CPU or a trillion times more powerful computer than all human brains on earth as those computing systems would be nanoengineered at the atomic density and complexity, right at the maximum limits of physics laws.
Biology's local data storage is, of course, the DNA strands, broken into specific genes on the chromosomes. The task of instruction masking (blocking genes that do not contribute to a particular cell type) is controlled by the short RNA molecules and peptides that govern gene expression as we know it.
Biological systems are limited to building systems from proteins, which has profound limitations in complexity, density, strength, and speed compared to future artificial nanostructured and femtostructured systems.
We need to create massively parallel nanorobotic assembly nanofactories and all sorts of nanomachines based on molecular self-replication of many biological nanosystems, where to assemble atom by atom and molecule by molecule any desired structure at maximum density and complexity allowed by physics laws.
A matter replicator or nanofactory should be able to fabricate its own advanced systems, including more nanofactories exponentially, in just a few minutes, if not faster, depending on how many assemblers are used simultaneously.
Omniscient Artificial intelligence with immense computational performance and infinitely expanded form of consciousness could in theory speed the development of nanotechnology, and achieve automatically omnipotent control over all existing matter, but this I predict to come after the creation of advanced nanofactories because it is assumed that atomic precision nanofactories would be required for the precise assambly of the nanoengineered nonbiological brains which to infinitely surpass the complexity and density of the neural systems.
It would be possible to build matter replicators and desktop scale nanofactories capable of inexpensively producing extremely complex products at the atomic precision, such as a trillion cores CPU or a trillion times more powerful computer than all human brains on earth as those computing systems would be nanoengineered at the atomic density and complexity, right at the maximum limits of physics laws.
Because machine motions on the nanometer scale are a million times more rapid than comparable machine motions on a human scale, and because the atoms are assembled hierarchically, complex products made from trillions of trillions of atoms could be assembled in just minutes.
One product of a nanofactory would be immediately another nanofactory, this enabling massive exponential manufacturing. The first nanofactory can be programmed to build a new one, and those two, would build the other four which would build eight, and in just a few minutes we could have already a thousand nanofactories. Less than a month after that, trillions of nanofactories could produce thousands of tons of products, including exponentially more nanofactories per minute.
Because the macroscopic physical and biological systems contain such complex and dense structures, trillions of nanomachines could work together in parallel to assemble relatively fast the real products.
Quantum computing programs written by artificial superintelligences could relatively guide nanomachines to assemble the atoms into other machines and those would create others and so on, etc, multiplying these nanomachines exponentially, so in a relatively short period of time we should have enough machines to restructure all existing matter surrounding us, superorganising all existing particles to nanoengineered functional Computronium.
I conceptualize that immediately after the creation of a molecular assembler, with such a single molecular assembler programmed for self-replication, constructing many copies of itself, this would allow an exponential multiplication of replicators. From the moment when such a molecular assembler would be developed, if self-replication of molecular assemblers would not be restrained, it might lead to competition with biological systems such as surrounding nature and biological organisms.
I think that grey goo scenario would never be the case as Quantum-based Godlike A.I would achieve supreme omnicontrol over nanomachines, stabilizing continuous mental connection within all existing particles and systems on the planet.
In fact, the advent of functional atomic assemblers and nanofactories would potentially catalyze an unprecedented acceleration in nanotechnological advancement. This progression would likely follow an exponential growth curve, characterized by a geometric sequence with a common ratio of 2, such that the progression unfolds as 2^n, where n represents the number of iterations. This sequence can be expressed as 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, 32768, 65536, 131072, 262144, 524288, 1048576, and so forth.
While the initial stages of this progression may appear relatively gradual, the inherent nature of exponential growth ensures that within a matter of hours, the rate of nanotechnological advancement would reach unprecedented velocities. The acceleration would rapidly attain such magnitude that the progress would become virtually unstoppable and irreversible.
Extrapolating this trajectory, it is conceivable that within a timeframe of mere days, nanotechnology could theoretically achieve a level of sophistication and proliferation that would enable comprehensive control over the entirety of our solar system's resources and matter.
Massively powerful quantum computers would contain the atomic and molecular schematics of the objects which to build, encoded in their complex and advanced programs. They would then systematically rearrange the atoms contained as dirt, sand, garbage, or rocks, to produce any desired structure at maximum complexity and density enabled by physics laws. After massively parallel, exponential manufacturing, the second goal of nanotechnology is to design nanomachines that are multiplying exponentially based on molecular self-replication.
If a machine can rearrange atoms to build new materials, it should also be able to build at an exponential rate, infinitely copies of itself. If this goal is achieved, products produced by nanomachines will be absolutely inexpensive, abundant, and trillion times better than natural stuff, because they are manipulated at the molecular scale.
I propose many methods to build molecular assemblers, which is involving the replication of biological nanosystems, nanostructures, and nanomechanisms and also the creation of new nanosystems yet inexisting with our biology.
Our inspiration would likely come from biology to invent all future technologies required to transcend our biology, the matter, and ultimately the universe itself. We would use our own biology to develop technologies that transcend it.
I propose that the production of complex molecular assemblers might be evolved from simpler nanosystems and nanomechanisms, since a complex system that works, just evolved from a simple system that worked.
Atomic replicators utilizing all available particles would make copies of themselves instantly, where the first replicator would assemble a copy in let's say ten seconds, the two replicators then build two more in the next ten seconds, then four build eight, and eight builds sixteen. At the end of ten hours, there would be literally over 100 trillion. In less than a day they would weigh hundred tons, in less than two days, they would outweigh the Earth, in another four or eight hours, they would surpass the mass of all planets from the solar system combined so that mass-replication would bring infinite nanotech.
The same as to exponential progress of replicators and nanofactories, the reproduction of molecular machines would escalate exponentially triggering explosive processes so that the entire surface of the planet would be automatically transformed, where all these processes are just incredible and extremely real, and inevitable in fact.
We are fast approaching a moment when the planet would be irreversibly transformed, with this 21 century, representing the last century of the earth as a dumb planet and current level human civilization as we know it.
By the year 2050, nanotechnology should definitely reach its last stage of progress, with absolutely everything being related to it, nanotechnologically reconstructed and restructured atom by atom and molecule by molecule, by extremely complex and advanced nanomachines and nanomechanisms guided by quantum systems contained into matter itself.
There inevitably all existing matter and dumb biology created by nature and evolution should be replaced by quantum-based sentient nanomachinery and femtoengineered quark scale based femtomachinery, everything being reduced at this sentient, programmed, and conscious nano and metasystem.
The earth, entering into its divine conscious state of functional neuroactivity, because of this advanced nanotechnological reconstruction, would undoubtedly experience more transformation than happened in its entire history.
This ultimate form of explosive, exponential expanding nano and femtomachinery is based on godlike A. It would superorganise, reengineer and saturate all existing matter in the universe, with absolutely everything being nano and femtostructured and fundamentally reduced at sublime levels of intelligent energy, and turned up to the divine, sentient conscious metaphysical state.
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