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Repeated baseless assertion is an irresponsible way to deal with a complex global crisis. The planet is not a morality play where we simply demand that people
by civilized 4y ago
Repeated baseless assertion is an irresponsible way to deal with a complex global crisis.
The planet is not a morality play where we simply demand that people be virtuous and things work out. We have to actually think things through and come up with a realistic plan considering the realities on the ground and human nature.
- worik 4y ago> Repeated baseless assertion is an irresponsible way to deal with a complex global crisis. Yes. Listen to yourself. We need to stop pumping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. That will take a huge effort. Distracting from that effort makes things worse.
- civilized 4y ago> Distracting from that effort makes things worse. I see no evidence or reason to believe that an effort to reduce solar irradiance distracts from the control of greenhouse gases on a civilizational scale. Civilizations are always doing tons of different things. Most of those things aren't competing with one another for people or resources. They're just happening simultaneously. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. And don't you want to know how difficult this will be before immediately shutting it down? Isn't that a critical consideration?
- worik 4y ago> I see no evidence or reason to believe that an effort to reduce solar irradiance distracts from the control of greenhouse gases on a civilizational scale. Then you are not paying attention. We need to shut these liars down and stop thinking that we can make huge changes to complex systems that we do not understand and have predictable results, let alone good results
- civilized 4y agoHow do you leap to "these liars"? What gives you the epistemic right to dismiss a proposal not on its scientific merits, but on some assumption about the certain moral evil of the people who said it?
- ncmncm 4y agoClever trolling is still trolling.
- civilized 4y agoI'm afraid you are trapped in unfounded absolute certainty and are no longer in touch with the world. You've lost the distinction between reality and the contents of your own mind. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/trapped-priors-as-a-basic-problem https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/trapped-priors-as-a-ba...
- worik 4y ago> How do you leap to "these liars"? To assert that it is possible using engineering to have predictable control over a system that we only have the barest understanding of (Earth's geophysical systems) is a straight up lie. That is where. Greed. Hubris. Burn the world.