From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Sep 08 1999 - 15:11:26 MDT
http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/ns-two090799.html
> The world's oceans seem to be draining away
>
> Within a billion years, our planet could be as dry and barren as
> Mars, claim geologists in Tokyo. They have calculated that the
> oceans are leaking water into the Earth's mantle five times as
> fast as it is being replenished.
Well, there you go. That's our deadline. The long debate as to whether
or not we should develop AI is finally settled; if we don't
*immediately* start a crash project to develop AI within the next
billion years, we'll all die of thirst.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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