Perspectives: June 2008

Monday, June 30, 2008

The Greatest Race

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/malthus-v-the-singularity/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_to_Growth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

SlashDot VS OilDrum

Who will lead us and which way are we headed.

Things Needed
- Goal Post
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- Judges Example: (the Faculty of Harvard, Oxford, and Todai) balanced and informed
- would need a form of a score card
InterTrade should be able to handle the back-end unless we get novel

Over at the Oil Drum they are mouthing off about the "Greatest Race".... It seems they are trying to lay down the framework for a bet I pose that we come up with some terms and then put it to them in an open letter They started off with this post "The Ultimate Fight?: The Singularity v. Resource Depletion and the Limits to Growth, Posted by Prof. Goose" Now that is all well and good as he said we need some goal post such as population stability/continued growth over X time or a measure of the Earths fitness at time/overtime... possibly with some conditions for stability such as off plant populations, on earth species count doesn't go bellow, quality of life index above x??? ect. I will do my best to keep score as well as act a impartial party if needed... I presume we need a panal of judges as well

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Time Series of Wealth

Cool Graph This real puts into perspective how lucky most of us in the us are... we really live a very remarkable life we must take the opportunity life has given to us and run with it to make major effort to help those of the world.... we have the time of day to think and plan for a future the my be better for all... so Lets get on and get it done...

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