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by baobun 255 days ago
> unfathomably complex swarms of nanobots

???

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It's you: A swarm of ~37 trillion cooperating nanobots, each one complex beyond human understanding, constructing and animating a titanic mobile megafortress that shambling across a planet consumed by a prehistoric grey-goo event.
It's not me, because I'm human, and that's not.

Why does that matter? Isn't it all the same? No, because I'm human, and I can make special exceptions for humans.

Isn't that perfect hypocrisy? Yes, but I'm human, and it's okay because I get to decide what's okay and I say it's okay because I'm human.

See also: why can I eat a burger but Jeffrey Dahmer went to prison?

They are referring to the bacteria we animals need to survive.
I assumed it was a reference to humans being multicellular life as each cell is nanobot sized and automata
he's mistaken, your body is most certainly not hosting nanobots lol
I do hope suggesting that you google "human cells" doesn't prove traumatic.
I counter-suggest you google "nanobots" or probably more in general, "robots". let me know where they fit in the tree of life, and I will consider myself duly corrected and enlightened!
"I could casually acknowledge I didn't catch an oblique joke about a new way of viewing the natural world which I previously took for granted... but it's too late! To admit an oopsie would be anathema to my identity and social survival. In this desperate hour, I have no choice but to argue that it is categorically wrong to view cellular biology a form of nanotech or vice-versa, using the narrowest and most pedantic dictionary entries."
the responsibility of excusing an erroneous statement as "just a joke bro" probably belongs to the parent post of the post you were replying to, especially when I can't even figure out the jokes punch line lol but you're a good sport for pitching in. whats the punch line?
For new heights (lows?) of delusional parasitosis: "They're under my skin! They ARE my skin!"