Re: averting doom

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From: John McCarthy
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 23:09

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Leonard Evens solemnly posts

     4> Except as interesting speculation, why should anyone
     care?  Remember that the real (plentiful) fossil record on
     earth is only about 500 million years old.  Surely no one
     should worry seriously about what sort of actions humanity
     should take to deal with such a problem.  Unfortunately,
     this may confuse people about the issue of global warming
     which is something which may radically affect human
     societies in the next several generations and which we may
     be able to do something about.

No comment except the above adverb.
--
John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
*
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

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