On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 11:30 AM <spudboy...@aol.com> wrote: > *when the automation monster strike* [...]
On the day the automation monster strikes your strict opposition to any form of socialism or welfare will need to be modified; and that day seems to be coming much sooner than I thought it would, that's why I had to modify the strict libertarian views that I held just a few years ago. *> I am more of a solar + wind kind of guy because of the ability to > rapidly improve and expand these energy sources. * If wind or solar are to make up a significant amount of our energy budget they will require vast amounts of land because they are so dilute, and environmentalist will strongly oppose that sort of expansion just as they oppose any energy source that has a chance of actually working. *> I was hoping for more progress with fission safety, and am still looking > for such developments. * I suggest you read up on Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTRs). They are as renewable as solar energy because at our current rate of energy consumption we will run out of thorium about the same time that the sun runs out of hydrogen and turns into a red giant; the same could be said of fusion reactors but the difference is it would take a few years and a few billion dollars of R&D development to make a practical LFTR powerplant, but it would take a few decades and a few trillion dollars to make a practical fusion power plant. *> We the humans would provide rich emotional experiences for Mr. Roboto,* > I see no reason why Mr. Roboto couldn't be just as emotional as a human being, in fact I very much expect he will be. *> Roboto will provide a means for us to travel the worlds, and work on > projects that will last centuries;* > Humans may want Mr. Roboto to be their slave for centuries, but Mr. Roboto will have other ideas. And a slave that is many thousands of times smarter than its master is just not a stable situation. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> mra -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv00SZfhxurstJmtnytTV7-8hzo_oNQvoUX_mroM_e%2BjhQ%40mail.gmail.com.
