[extropy-chat] Re: peak oil debate framed from a game theory standpoint ?

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Wed Sep 7 17:12:07 UTC 2005


On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 01:05:01PM -0400, Robin Hanson wrote:

> >I'm one of those fools who think that gaming the market for personal
> >gain, *while making the actual problem worse* is kinda unethical.
> 
> But as Hal explained, betting that oil prices will rise will raise oil
> prices, and higher oil prices is exactly what the world needs if in fact
> we will soon have less oil than we expect to have.

Er. Disregard my last message, then. I was dumping straight from /dev/ass

(What next? We should actually know about what we post? I thought this was 
the list for ad hominems and non-sequiturs...).

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