Re:Lisp inventor John McCarthy on human progress and its sus...
by jerf on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @07:49PM
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"that would be bad. No need to evolve in any cardinal way... until the meteor stroke, super vulcanos erupted , etc..."
Again, you bring more assertions out of thin air, this time actively contradicting the source. McCarthy explicitly mentions space colonization, though he doesn't make it a central part of his argument. Who anywhere said the only response to change would be technological? You're criticizing McCarthy for ideas that you're the one bringing up in the first place. That's not fair.
Again, you bring more assertions out of thin air, this time actively contradicting the source. McCarthy explicitly mentions space colonization, though he doesn't make it a central part of his argument. Who anywhere said the only response to change would be technological? You're criticizing McCarthy for ideas that you're the one bringing up in the first place. That's not fair.