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> "I don't think we think we know the answer to all these questions about global warming and so forth. And the people that ask the questions think they know the
by shmageggy 5y ago
> "I don't think we think we know the answer to all these questions about global warming and so forth. And the people that ask the questions think they know the answers," he said. "We're just more modest."
This is absurd almost to the point of gaslighting. Claiming that you as a 97 year old investor know more than an entire field of scientists and calling it modesty? Ridiculous
- exporectomy 5y agoScientists know they don't know either. That's why they have error bars and won't make quantified predictions on human consequences. It's activists who believe the world will end and all that crap.
- postmeta 5y agoThey don't make quantified predictions on human consequences of air pollution?
- exporectomy 5y agoNo. I was referring to global warming.
- hervature 5y agoFor other readers, Charlie Munger said that, not Buffett.
- irrational 5y ago97 years old means he was born in the mid 1920s. He lived through the Great Depression, WWII, and other stuff. His perspective is probably seeing terrible things happening in the past and then the good times that happen afterwards and projecting that into the future. I don’t know if it is ridiculous or optimistic based upon past experience.