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The problem is willingness of the production to consumption chain to implement bio-based change.<br>
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It would be nice to jump steps and keep the commercial end up to the
science end as happens with computational technologies and products
therefrom. Not many years ago there was the "clock speeds above
1Ghz were illegal for citizens to own".<br>
That old law vaporized easily. The "no GMO" issue has taken a
decade out of ag crops development. No "no embryonic stem cells"
has taken a decade out of biomedicine. The singularity has
to overcome luddites every step of the way.<br>
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It's gong to take ethanol plants, then solid and liquid state
fermentation plants then intergrated food/fuel/pharma plants to put the
cash behind the novel changes like black, high efficiency pond scum
GMO's that come in 1000 varieties depending upon what the end use
chemistry<br>
is to be.<br>
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Now if someone could convince the public that global warming required a response that captures water in novel bioproducts<br>
because simple old forests and farms won't cut it and that the
resulting abundance of bioproducts would decrease the cost of all
consumables there should be an economic pull to realize the end goal
soooner. <br>
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As well there are 2 saleable commercial reasons for AGI<br>
commercial development. Governments want to be the first to no just predict short term but create made to order weather .<br>
Nobody wants all the storms or all the drought. Markets
want to know where and when to time economic activity to coincide with<br>
beneficial weather driven conditions.<br>
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The second is novel healthy lifestyle food and pharma. AGI
computational capacity should deliver novel biology for these
commercial products. <br>
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If the vast majority don't want to live an indeterminate period of time
or possess enhancements let them be happy with this level and let them
naturally select themselves out of the gene pool as they gradually grow
old and die. It's a huge waste but 10,000 + years of
conditioning to accept our current state is not something
everyone's mind can dissassociate from. <br>
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The challenge is to build a global critical mass to sustain the
commercialization of the leading edge extropian, AGI singularity,
transhuman as an expanding economy in spite of the luddite drives of
the rest of society.<br>
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