Castle in the sky
From apm
This page is about the seemingly present belief that:
first:
- (1) even if one can identify a sensible far term target (see: Nanosystems gemstone metamaterial on chip factory gemstone metamaterial technology)
- (2) if there are no areas of R&D where the problem of getting there (bootstrapping) can be tackled in a targeted way then
the identification of the far term target is completely pointless and a misplaced effort.
The as sensible identified target is just an unreachable "castle in the sky".
AND second:
- (3) there indeed are no such areas of R&D where the problem of getting there (bootstrapping) can be tackled in a targeted way
Errors
(3) Is clearly false.
There are plenty of points to put efforts in targeted development.
See: Most relevant R&D construction sites for progress in APM
Economic viability is likely one of the biggest challenges.
Even if (3) were true that might change at any time.
And in the case of gemstone metamaterial technology it
would not requite ultra surprising scientific discoveries that go very against what we currently know,
like Star Trek like "beaming" or "warp drive" or "matter from energy replicators" would require.
This weakens (2)
