Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:55:53 01/13/05
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On January 13, 2005 at 22:01:34, Keith Evans wrote: >On January 13, 2005 at 17:50:39, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On January 13, 2005 at 17:37:10, Olaf Jenkner wrote: >> >>>On January 13, 2005 at 14:31:10, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >>> >>>>Kurzweil has some sound arguments: the more >>>>people on the planet, the more cool ideas we'll come up with. >>> >>>the more people on the planet, the more stupid people with no >>>ideas will be on the planet. >> >>A Gaussian curve has two tails. >> >>The most interesting and important thing is the increase in knowledge. > >If you want an increase in scientific knowledge, then given that state of the >humanity in 2005 I think that there are far more effective ways of increasing >knowledge than by encouraging population growth. Could you reference where Ray >says that an increase in population will necessarily result in an increase in >knowledge? I was referring to the paper when I said that the most interesting thing was the increase in knowledge. The knowledge is not necessarily contained in the people. Indeed, most of it resides in data stores.
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