Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net> writes:
> About a week ago Alex Bokov posted something that has been
> rattling around in my brain ever since: that our society is threatened
> by hitting local maxima and stagnating. Perhaps this is a greater
> threat than military nanotech or singularity.
Perhaps. But a good way of avoiding it is to maximize diversity, to make sure that there is always somebody, somewhere who is doing things differently and getting away with it.
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