Re: SCIENCE TO SLOW

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From: Jim Cook
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 03:40

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In article <JMC.95Mar28150449@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>, 
jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) says:
>
>You haven't told us precisely what you advocate or what the costs of
>that are.  Maybe the costs to humanity of what you would advocate to
>reverse global warming are higher than the costs of letting global
>warming happen.
>
>-- 
>John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
>*
>He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
>
>http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/

IMHO, it's not _just_ the cost-benefit ratio for humanity that 
matters.  We need to accept the responsibility that comes with 
our intellegence and power, and give other species a break.

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