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I feel like the general mood is too risk averse for big projects like this at the moment. I hope I'm proved wrong though. I miss an age of optimism.

• baggy_trough 3y ago
  The Age of Optimism declined due to observed results.
  • Neil44 3y ago
    I don't think long term pessimism has amazing results either.
    • svnt 3y ago
      It isn’t binary. Naive optimism and over-agency in a natural system seems to primarily function to bring information to the agent at the cost of system performance. If what is here called pessimism results in the down-regulation of human impact and us largely getting out of the way of self-equilibrium-finding complex systems until we better understand them, then prudence very well might have amazing results.
      • Neil44 3y ago
        That the systems are equilibrium finding and that said equilibrium will be ‘amazing’ are both quite bold assumptions.