[ExI] Bryan & Kevin's exchange on technology

Bryan Bishop kanzure at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 03:39:00 UTC 2008


On Monday 30 June 2008, Kevin Freels wrote:
> I never intended for this thread to go this far. I just wanted it to
> be known that I was revising my previous position in other posts that
> the oil would one day run out. I'm not entirely sure where you stand
> but it seems to me that you see oilless gasoline as impossible but

I don't think I've implied this.

> you think the singularity can happen in the midst of world economic
> collapse and devolution of society. Never mind the fact that any AI

Yes, but that's not the scenario I'm hoping for. 

> that can bridge human death can probably find a way to make gasoline
> cheaper than drilling oil.

Sure.

> Regardless of where you stand, I'm done with this thread. Its gone on
> far too long for what I wanted to accomplish and it's just adding
> noise to the list at this point.

I thought it was an interesting discussion. I guess we'll stop.

> One thing I do want to give you Bryan is a small piece of advice. You
> are an extremely intelligent and knowledgeable person. Widen your
> focus a bit and learn some more about people. History, sociology,
> psychology, and anthropology would all do you some good. You have to
> understand that as a single human being you can't even manufacture
> the metal and glass needed to make a light bulb by yourself. No man
> is an island.

I guess now would be a bad time to pull out my references on glass 
blowing.

- Bryan
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