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by fennecfoxen 2305 days ago
That's not really grey goo, in the typical use of the term; that's just a novel agricultural pest.
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a hypothetical global catastrophic scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating machines consume all biomass on Earth while building more of themselves

It’s right there in the first sentence. Nothing about eating concrete or sand.

Can’t create atoms out of thin air, maybe you can but that isn’t enough to replicate rapidly