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How 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 certa
by civilized 4y ago
How 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.
- civilized 4y agoBy that logic, there is no point in doing anything at all. Who knows whether we can avoid burning by stopping CO2 emissions? It's all too complex! You can't separate the scientists whose models told you to reduce CO2 and the scientists who propose reducing solar irradiance with bubble shades. They're all using the same equations to predict what will happen.