<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Mar 8, 2024 at 8:10 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I have no confidence in nuclear fission. Think about it in the<br>
background of this list. We are most likely only a few years from the<br>
singularity. Do you really think "the powers that be" would bother<br>
with fission in a world where they can grow PV like Kudzu?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure, if they weren't certain they could do exactly that in the very near future. I'd put over 50% odds of the Singularity not happening until at least 2030, which is more than a few years away still.</div></div></div>