[ExI] bill gates commentary on climate change: wasRE: China and solar power

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com> 

>...The important insight for those of us reading this message is that nearly all of us realize the objections to carbon burning are now irrelevant... short time remaining before AI reaches critical mass (critical smart?)  

Time delayed realization: Bill Gates has been a leading promoter of the global warming notion, but last week much to the surprise of me and plenty of others, he backed off of that.  Perhaps he pondered the Singularity notion and concluded (as many or most of us here did) that there is low probability the Singularity will be far in the future.  He realized it is a near-term phenomenon, two or three decades at most, meaning that climate is irrelevant.

spike