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let them eat entropy? they *are* entropy.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Fri Aug 27 10:58:28 1999

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:30:48 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199908271430.QAA04567@mail.replay.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>

At 03:01 PM 8/27/99 +1000, James Morris wrote:
>
>Bonus points for working out how many people starved to death in the time
>it took you to read this email.
>

Bonus points if you know how many extra mouths were
just inflicted on the future, despite all the attrition you're
so worried about.

The cultures who have computers are generally *shrinking* while
the primitives replicate like rabbits in australia.  The primitive
cultures are going to overwhelm; civilization is transient, like glaciers.













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