<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 6:32 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>I’m not sure one will ever have the optimal time to dismantle the current system<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>— </i></div></div></blockquote><div><i> </i></div><div><font size="4">Well I'm sure the optimal <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">time </span>isn't during a worldwide pandemic<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, people are going to be stressed and panicked enough as it is without throwing that hairball into the mix,</span></font><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> <i></i></span><i>in other words, if there’ll ever be a time it’ll be painless.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">There will never be such a time because the AI Singularity will happen first rendering economic questions of that sort moot.</font></div></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> <i></i></span><i>It’s kind of like abolishing slavery. It’s going to cause disruption,</i></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Yeah, like the sort of disruption the C<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">hicxulub Event caused.</span></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> <i></i></span><i>but that can’t be the go to argue against it.<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></i></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Oh I think it can be.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div></div></div>