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Maybe one way to mitigate is to have a separate branch of the political system dedicated to calculating the costs. Then make the methods for calculating as publ
by worldsayshi 4y ago
Maybe one way to mitigate is to have a separate branch of the political system dedicated to calculating the costs. Then make the methods for calculating as publicly available as possible so that they can be reproduced by non-profits.
We have managed judicial systems. We can manage this too.
- adrianN 4y agoI don't see how that helps. For example there are many publications available that calculate the cost of CO2, eg [1] from the German government. Yet global warming is still a problem. [1] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/1410/publikationen/2020-12-21_methodenkonvention_3_1_kostensaetze.pdf https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/14...
- worldsayshi 4y agoDictatorships are still a problem too. But it's not because we don't know what the alternative looks like. Figuring out what the alternative should look like is a big challenge but let's not pretend that that is the main issue here.
- sitkack 4y agoYou used to be able to trust the GAO and NIST to calculate these things.