Today's post, Total Nano Domination was originally published on 27 November 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

If you get a small advantage in nanotechnology, that might not be enough to take over the world. But if you use that small advantage in nanotechnology to gain a major advancement in bots, you could gain an extraordinary amount of power very fast.

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