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Monday, May 11, 2009

Re: Self-replicating machines

See Robin Hanson's paper on "The Economics of the Singularity" at
http://spectrum.ieee.org/singularity, which is an update of his 1998
paper in the Journal of Transhumanism.

Hanson is the most fascinating of the "Virginia School" of libertarian /
public-choice economists associated with George Mason University. The
Virginia School is described at
http://www.mercatus.org/MediaDetails.aspx?id=22330 , and is compared to
the Austrian School at
http://www.scottbeaulier.com/120908_beaulier_hall_vienna_to_virginia_1_.doc
.