[extropy-chat] Putting the tsunami into context

[Eliezer Yudkowsky]

Alfio Puglisi wrote:
> I just thought of a new unit of measure to tell people when talking about
> cryonics, life extension, Singularity etc. According to this optimistic
> formula: 6 billions / (80*365) =~ 200,000 the human population is
> suffering one or two Asian Tsunamis a day. So for each day a Friendly
> singularity is delayed, every day is like December 26th.

Alfio,

Robert Bradbury and I independently calculated the planetary death rate 
150,000 lives per day.

Thus, converting life to time, and taking the latest headlines from Google 
News, the toll now stands at 19 hours, 12 minutes.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence