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Comment author: timtyler 05 December 2011 02:42:07PM 2 points [-]

Human material progress is sustainable?!? Has anyone told Robin Hanson?

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 05 December 2011 02:49:47PM *  0 points [-]

Human material progress is sustainable for very large values of material progress.

Comment author: timtyler 05 December 2011 04:58:15PM *  0 points [-]

The page says: "there are no apparent obstacles even to billion year sustainability". It seems rather strange to have a whole page devoted to the hypothesis that human material progress is sustainable - apparently without acknowledging that progress might result in the end of the human race - or that overall progress is very likely to eventually slow down to minimal levels. Instead we have a page on menaces - which offers an inadequate treatment of the topic.