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Lisp inventor John McCarthy on human progress and its sustainability
The sustainability pages are essentially done, although I plan to improve them and respond to inadequacies people find. Having done my best to show that material progress is sustainable, I can justifiably turn my attention to the future and present ideas about what progress people will want and what can be achieved…
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Society, Policy & CultureLife, Learning & Writing2011
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Feb 9, 2011 | Lisp inventor John McCarthy on human progress and its sustainability by taraharris | 136 | 51 |
| Jun 7, 2011 | He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense by p4bl0 | 51 | 63 |
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