Re: [geo] Scientists Focused on Geoengineering Challenge the Inevitability of Multi-Millennial Global Warming

2016-09-07 Thread Michael Trachtenberg
While I agree with your projection please note nothing is costless. A major reason chip labor is used is that it is still cheaper than AI/robotics. As that changes, for better or worse, unemployment follows. Cost less NOT costless. Michael Trachtenberg, PhD Visiting Scientist Department of

Re: [geo] Scientists Focused on Geoengineering Challenge the Inevitability of Multi-Millennial Global Warming

2016-09-07 Thread Michael Trachtenberg
HI Adam, The majority of physical chemical processes while controlled will not be accelerated greatly beyond known maxima simply by applying computing capabilities. Mike Michael Trachtenberg, PhD Visiting Scientist Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Rutgers University New

[geo] Bonn Challenge approaches target to restore 150 million hectares of degraded land

2016-09-07 Thread Andrew Lockley
http://www.iucnworldconservationcongress.org/news/20160904/article/bonn-challenge-approaches-target-restore-150-million-hectares-degraded-land Bonn Challenge approaches target to restore 150 million hectares of degraded land Sun, 04 Sep 2016 Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, 3 September 2016 (IUCN) – The

Re: [geo] Scientists Focused on Geoengineering Challenge the Inevitability of Multi-Millennial Global Warming

2016-09-07 Thread Andrew Lockley
To counter : Here's just one example from just this week in which the application of computing power has yielded a leap forward in energy processes that may readily be applied to CDR https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160901211410.htm On 7 Sep 2016 01:47, "Michael Trachtenberg"

Re: [geo] Scientists Focused on Geoengineering Challenge the Inevitability of Multi-Millennial Global Warming

2016-09-07 Thread Adam Dorr
Post-scarcity is unintuitive, and it can be a challenge to fully unpack all of the assumptions we normally make about production. Just to clarify the confusion about cost, let me reiterate that I am using the term in the *economic *sense. A commodity that is *economically *costless is something