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This is a wildly armchair question, but can't we just model human's ability to adapt to change and then as a result determine if technology will be sufficient t
by SCUSKU 3y ago
This is a wildly armchair question, but can't we just model human's ability to adapt to change and then as a result determine if technology will be sufficient to save us from impending environmental collapse? I suppose this is a multi-trillion dollar open question...?
- ben_w 3y agoI doubt we can model it in a way that is useful. We have many examples of us both adapting and failing to adapt, and can therefore say things like "adapts X% of the time", except in those cases the solution has often been "move elsewhere and/or fight other people" which I think isn't useful because it doesn't work so well on a planetary scale unless and until interplanetary travel is as easy as the Mayflower/Plymouth Rock journey. Might still be useful for general governance just by characterising dangerous parts of the phase space[0] where dragons be so they can be avoided. [0] how does phase space differ from latent space anyway?