Neil Gershenfeld
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first heard May 2023
last heard May 2023
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You can't forbid because there isn't command and control.
The most useful thing you can do is provide incentives for transparency.
But really the heart of what we do is you could do this by yourself in a basement for nefarious reasons, or you could come into a place in the light where you get help and you get community and you get resources.
and there's an incentive to do it in the open, not in the dark.
And that might sound naive, but in the sort of places we're working,
Again, bad people do bad things in these places already, but providing openness and providing transparency is a key part of managing these.
And so it transitions from regulating risks as regulation to soft power to manage them.
Yeah, and I don't say that as sort of dewy-eyed naive.
I say that empirically from just years of seeing how this plays out in communities.
In the end, most fundamentally, literally the mother of all problems is who designed us.
So assume success and that we're going to transition to the machines making machines and all of these new sort of social systems we're describing will help manage them and curate them and democratize them.
If we close the gap I just led off with of 10 to the 10 to 10 to the 18 between ChipFab and you, we're ultimately in marrying communication, computation, and fabrication going to be able to create unimaginable complexity.
And how do you design that?
And so I'd say...
The deepest of all questions that I've been working on goes back to the oldest part of our genome.
So in our genome, what are called Hox genes, and these are morphogenes, and
Nowhere in your genome is the number five.
It doesn't store the fact that you have five fingers.
What it stores is what's called the developmental program.
It's a series of steps and the steps have the character of like grow up a gradient or break symmetry.
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