Your comment on not having much evidence to evaluate the reliability
of my predictions is correct, to the best of my knowledge.
Which is the most unlikely beginning condition, that we get serious or
that we can decide what to do?
When you suggested that your preference is for "a government sized
more like US around WW1 or
earlier", were you referring to the number of personnel or the amount
of dollars spent?
But perhaps the more pertinent question is where do you think such a
government could be established?
If I am correct in assuming that this group was initially created to
discuss the science fiction of Dr. Brin then I suppose you could be
thinking of creating some alternate universe or time line where
returning to past conditions could be stipulated.
learner
"John Williams" responded in less than 60 minutes to the previous
post, used an excellent vocabulary to polarize and did not respond to
the suggestion in the subject that perhaps he was hallucinating. Are
we dealing with a computer program here? Or just someone who has been
programmed?
On Sep 8, 2009, at 1:31 PM, John Williams wrote:
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Chris Frandsen<lear...@mac.com>
wrote:
No way will that happen unless there is an
international disaster and major die-off of the human species.
I don't have much evidence to evaluate the reliability of your
predictions, but what evidence I have seen makes me doubt their
accuracy.
Now when we decide to get serious
about dealing with global climate change government spending will
balloon
even more, so prepare yourself.
Another highly dubious prediction. But if taken literally, perhaps it
saves itself by having the highly unlikely beginning condition, so
that the ending need not be wrong if the beginning condition is not
satisfied.
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