[ExI] how would Transhumanists cope, if the Singularity did nothappen in their lifetime?

[Damien Broderick]

At 09:20 AM 5/23/2007 +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:


>On 23/05/07, John K Clark <<mailto:jonkc at att.net>jonkc at att.net> wrote:
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>And Malthus did not even mention another technological invention much less
>its improvements, birth control.
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>He couldn't predict stuff that hadn't happened yet. That's the 
>problem with prediction.

Neither of these claims is correct, iirc. Of course Malthus knew 
about artificial contraception; I seem to recall that he regarded it 
as a moral crime, and explicitly rejected it as a solution to the 
problem he projected, but as Encyc. Brit. notes he "recommended late 
marriage and sexual abstinence as methods of birth control". No time 
to go hunting cites.

Damien Broderick