Eric Drexler | MSEP: What, Why, and How?

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  • @jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104
    @jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    It's great to hear from Drexler again.

  • @darklord9393
    @darklord9393 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Good to hear from Dr. Drexler again!

  • @humanityplus
    @humanityplus ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you, Eric! Now, this is a talk worth listening to because it highlights what is on the horizon and why it needs to be designed.

  • @ats6136
    @ats6136 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Eric is the OG 🐐

  • @tomcraver9659
    @tomcraver9659 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was unsure whether Eric is suggesting
    - a mass-audience/even-for-kids construction game/tool that could build from pre-made parts up to structures on the order of magnitude of some of the things done in Minecraft; OR
    - a 'for-engineers' tool that would do a more accurate physical simulation (roughly newtonian accuracy) for smaller constructs; OR
    - a 'Serious-Scientists' tool that always does the fullest practical simulation down to correctly simulated movements and constraints and other physical interactions of atoms or molecules.
    I'd like to see all three, and have them connected.
    - A kid (or hobbyist) might build a cool machine from pre-specified parts at the construction kit level, debug it functionally, then submit the whole thing to be verified at the 'newtonian-forces' simulation level, getting back information on issues with the design (motor too weak, torque on shaft would break it, etc)
    - An engineer might design a new part from molecules with a 'newtonian' approximation, then submit it to deep-physics simulation to fully characterize it under a variety of test loads, which would automatically generate a correct 'newtonian' level physical description and constraints, as well as a simple functional description for the construction kit level.
    - A scientist might develop support for adding accurate simulation of new molecules for inclusion in the deep physics simulation, thereby giving the engineering level a new molecular building block with specified benefits and capabilities.

  • @mechadense
    @mechadense ปีที่แล้ว +5

    25:05 Questions

  • @Theodorus5
    @Theodorus5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Q&A should have been longer!

  • @booplaystoomuch3047
    @booplaystoomuch3047 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent breakdown of the latest tools, thank you!

  • @mechadense
    @mechadense ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Awesome!
    Though I sure hope Godot being based on C++ isn't setting this up for failure.
    IMO a denotative programmatic CAD language (remotely akin to OpenSCAD, no modifications of hidden state) would be much better as a core.
    Then again, creating something like that from scratch would be a daunting task.
    (1/2)

    • @mechadense
      @mechadense ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Can recommend reading the german article of Henning Thielemann on why to avert C++
      Title is not filter-frienfly I found :/
      (2/2 modified)

  • @valentinussofa4135
    @valentinussofa4135 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great lecture. Thank you🙏

  • @tomcraver9659
    @tomcraver9659 ปีที่แล้ว

    Alternaives to MSEP, maybe:
    "MOLES" - Molecular engineering systems. Also a reference to eventually scaling up to 'moles' of matter and beyond.
    Or "MOLDS" - Mol-ecular Design Systems, referencing shaping matter, but a perhaps unfortunate association with mold.

  • @Theodorus5
    @Theodorus5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent thank you

  • @larrypalmer5177
    @larrypalmer5177 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    VR and AR would be valuable tools.

  • @Themasterbf3
    @Themasterbf3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Does anybody happen to have any documentation for using nanoengineer. I've been trying to use but I can't find any useful documentation on the web.

  • @itisno1
    @itisno1 ปีที่แล้ว

    What's funny is Drexler was in the ai field & moved to nanotechnology. I wanted to pursue material science with an emphasis on nano tech but I figure, by the time I'm able to significantly contribute, AI will already be doing most of that work.

  • @blueblimp
    @blueblimp ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is there a website for this MSEP (Molecular Systems Engineering Platform) project? It sounds interesting.

    • @blueblimp
      @blueblimp ปีที่แล้ว +5

      To answer my own question: search for "astera molecular systems".

    • @Quinnatator
      @Quinnatator ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you! Was curious about this as well.

  • @oker59
    @oker59 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i take it you can't just plug in Drexler's nanosystmes in a Cerbras CS-2 and see if it can crank out a set of plans for how to go from either, proteins, dna, or even RNA(David Baker was actually excited by the work on rna nanotechnology) to some kind of second generation nano-manufacturing beyond wet-nano-manufacturing?

    • @oker59
      @oker59 ปีที่แล้ว

      One thing is for certain - I can't imagine going from today's wet-nanotechnology to some kind of second generation nano-manufacturing before the Russian/China problems escalate to WWIII. I'm hearing China's going to invade Taiwon before the end of the year. Can you get things going before then?

    • @mechadense
      @mechadense ปีที่แล้ว

      @@oker59
      Richard Feynman had similar thoughts/worries when the first njuke happened. And described it as bad mindeset in retrospect. So written in "Surely you're joking Mr Feynman".

    • @oker59
      @oker59 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mechadense I'm messing with Drexler and Co on purpose.
      A long time ago now, I tried to explain to Chris Phoenix/Eric Drexler that mathematics is about questioning assumptions, and idealizations(walking the fine line between over/under generalization) and that most people are not mathematical, that they are conditioned by upbringing and therefore don't question assumptions and make all kinds of over/under generalizations. They will not change, and therefore, the only way to deal with them is either war(if you can't leave them) or leave them.
      Drexler and Co don't like that and had a big pissy fit about it. Instead of being scientific and disproving me, they yelled and ranted and slammed doors and ran away. And, I still can't get an answer out of them. So, I mess with them.

  • @Tottorul
    @Tottorul หลายเดือนก่อน

    Drexler is like my priest. I imagine I can cryopreserve myself and have nanobots reconnect my fractured body into its original shape and bring it back to life in the future to deal with depression and despair

  • @CandidDate
    @CandidDate ปีที่แล้ว

    Could molecular machines be frictionless?

  • @travisrivera585
    @travisrivera585 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Get a load of those questions though "If you want us to blah blah blah" That's a statement bro. What is he in 1st grade?

    • @mechadense
      @mechadense ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you mean 33:23 he says "If you want to speed things up …". But yes. The usual disbelieve in the value of predictions that are not right here and now this instant experimentally verifyable. No matter how fundamental, trivial and robust the predictions.

  • @randompal9828
    @randompal9828 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this is insane

  • @patrickwilkie5576
    @patrickwilkie5576 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why not Blender? Why GODOT?

  • @brettins
    @brettins ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The last two questions were pretty disrespectful and kind of ignorant when talking to the master of the field. His talk isn't the place where you get up and try to teach him something or convince him of your point of view. "Nature has done such good things, why do something other than nature?" and "why are you working on A when B needs to worked on? I think B is more important!". Sit down!

    • @Fredjoe5
      @Fredjoe5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I don't see them as disrespectful in any way. They were simply off-topic for what he'd intended to cover. Part of the issue of this field has been a lack of focus or a drifting in focus over the short-term achievable goals on the path to the longer-term goals.
      Organic solutions are great, but don't get us what we want in the end, and never will, because they operate within a different set of constraints, as Drexler pointed out. The final question's not wrong, but fails to understand that both short and long-term goals are needed, and we've had so many people looking pie-in-the sky for so long without doing the hard work of making the basics possible.

  • @cocoweeedbee3808
    @cocoweeedbee3808 ปีที่แล้ว

    selforganizing lectrobots selfgrowing infrostructures
    nonbio neuralnet
    i have better name its universal molecular non bio replicating assembler of constructor-creation task non bio neural network of non bio neuromorphic neuro semantics based programmable matter medium design

  • @randompal9828
    @randompal9828 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this guy has been reading too much Yudkowsky

    • @spacefacts1681
      @spacefacts1681 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      yudkowsky was in preschool when this guy was writing about this kinda stuff