Re: from 6 billion to 500 million: how? (was RE: true abundance?)

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jan 30 2001 - 20:58:15 MST

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denis bider wrote:
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> I think we all dream of - or maybe at least feel highly of - a world like
> Asimov described in Aurora: a whole planet divided into a relatively small
> number of large properties, each of them governed by virtually
> self-sustained hominids and their robots.

Try http://singinst.org/intro.html for a better sense of the alternatives.

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