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By: » Majanduskasvu ulmeliselt lõplikest piiridest

» Majanduskasvu ulmeliselt lõplikest piiridest — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:56:13 +0000

[...] tõmbas käima Robin Hanson, kes tuletas meelde, et viimaste aastasadade majanduskasv on osutunud võimalikuks paljuski tänu sellele, et inimkond [...]

By: Alan Dawrst

Alan Dawrst — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:22:34 +0000

In view of the massive amounts of suffering in nature, we might strongly hope that doesn't happen.

By: Why improve nature when destroying it is so much easier? « Robert Wiblin

Why improve nature when destroying it is so much easier? « Robert Wiblin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:19:43 +0000

[...] needed to create wealth and buy what they need to be happy. Robin Hanson outlinesthe evidence for nature’s eventual destruction once humans work out how to get what they currently need from it in other [...]

By: Overcoming Bias : Poor Folks Do Smile

Overcoming Bias : Poor Folks Do Smile — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:01:08 +0000

[...] Our ancestors were designed with pleasure and pain to motivate them in a near subsistence world. Lives of continuus torture, where they’d rather be dead, were rare. Our descendants will be similarly adapted to find joy and meaning in their near subsistence lives. And intense pain may well be eliminated in favor of other ways to induce intense focus. Contact with virtual worlds and with a vast larger society will be far cheaper for them that it was for our ancestors, though contact with a real wild nature will be more expensive. [...]

By: Immortality. Would you want it? - Page 2 - Politics.ie

Immortality. Would you want it? - Page 2 - Politics.ie — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:23:32 +0000

[...] losing a natural world independent of humanity, and eventually the end of rising living standards: Overcoming Bias : Nature is Doomed Overcoming Bias : Limits To [...]

By: Overcoming Bias : Limits To Growth

Overcoming Bias : Limits To Growth — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:31:38 +0000

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By: Phil Goetz

Phil Goetz — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:43:15 +0000

Colonization of other worlds will have no noticable effect on population here on Earth. It takes a lot less energy to make a person than to ship one off to another star. This is independent of your technology level.

By: Phil Goetz

Phil Goetz — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:41:30 +0000

This isn’t a prediction. It’s already happened. Next time you fly from the east coast to the west coast, look out your window the entire trip. You’ll spend about 6 hours looking at either cities or farmland below you. You may fly over some forest in southern New Jersey or central Pennsylvania for one to two minutes. When you get near the Rockies, you’ll fly over our famous, vaunted national parks and national forests in less than thirty seconds.

By: Phil Goetz

Phil Goetz — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:38:00 +0000

Technology gives each person the ability to use more resources.

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Tweets that mention Overcoming Bias : Nature is Doomed -- Topsy.com — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:10:39 +0000

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