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It’s not a trained reflex; it’s being humble enough to recognize one’s own ignorance when confronted with the complexity of the system at end. Undoubtedly ther
by exabrial 4y ago
It’s not a trained reflex; it’s being humble enough to recognize one’s own ignorance when confronted with the complexity of the system at end.
Undoubtedly there would be disaster with unintended consequences.
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoand undoubtably we are undergoing disasters with wholly unintended consequences. When the house is on fire, you don't worry about water damage.
- exabrial 4y agoMore aptly: if your house is on fire, you don't remove all of the oxygen from the planet.
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoThat's more like, what's happening now with polluters indiscriminately emitting whatever into the atmosphere without any effective rules. But I guess that's ok somehow? And trying literally anything to reverse it is met with horror and hyperbolic rhetoric like 'remove all the oxygen from the planet'.