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- From: srgxbhh@grace.cri.nz
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: The Real Challenge
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 19:15:36 GMT
- Organization: Industrial Research Ltd., New Zealand.
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- References: <149180366@hpindda.cup.hp.com>,<JMC.93Jan24141448@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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- John McCarthy wrote
-
- >You won't get a whole treatise out me. I don't do this much work
- >for a newsgroup posting.
- >
- >Are you arguing that without such a treatise, we should assume that
- >the problems cannot be solved?
- >--
- >John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
- >*
- >He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
- >
-
- No, I was hoping for quantitative information that would enable me to
- assess the validity of your position. Without such information your
- post appears to me as speculative. I was just being lazy, and hoping
- you would provide sufficient data for me to assess your assertion,
- which appeared to conflict with my belief ( I haven't studied the
- subject ) that it would be very difficult to sustain worldwide
- consumption/capita at existing US levels.
-
- Bruce Hamilton srgxbhh@grv.grace.cri.nz
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