[ExI] Oil will never run out

Samantha  Atkins sjatkins at mac.com
Mon Jun 30 07:31:09 UTC 2008


On Jun 29, 2008, at 1:59 PM, Bryan Bishop wrote:

> On Sunday 29 June 2008, Kevin Freels wrote:
>> I am going to go on a leap of faith and assume that the problem will
>> be solved. If it isn't, the only real alternative is economic
>> collapse of the world and a reversal of hundreds of years of progress
>> and the singularity pushed off indefinitely.
>
> I fail to see why the singularity would need the economies we see in  
> the
> world around us today. I may or may not comment on the rest of your
> email, but it seems like you're just repeating yourself.
>

The idea that the Singularity is going to come real soon now (RSN) and  
save us all before we get into too bad a pickle is far worse than  
Wishful Thinking.   IMHO of course.




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