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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.