Comment on Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)

Thu, 10 May 2012 22:07:47 GMT

I understand that global thermonuclear war could cause serious damage, but I'm not aware of any credible efforts that can prove they're moving things in the right direction.

What do you mean by "biological holocaust"?

Super eruptions surely follow some kind of power law, and as far as I can tell (and we can be sure by extrapolating from the power law), they don't get anywhere remotely near levels of destroying all life on Earth.

And we sure know how to heat Earth significantly in no time - just release some of these into atmosphere. It will only increase temperature, not sunlight, so food production and such will still be affected, but we already produce way more food per capita to feed everyone, so even a pretty big reduction won't get anywhere near compromising food security for majority of people, let alone threatening to kill everyone.

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