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Yes. Plus, there's an epistemological asymmetry here. We can know that it's not yet solved (and I would agree that we do know this right now). We cannot know
by jholman 14y ago
Yes.
Plus, there's an epistemological asymmetry here. We can know that it's not yet solved (and I would agree that we do know this right now). We cannot know that it is solved, at least not without waiting tens of thousands of years. Even if we escape current frying pans, we'll still have a fire to deal with.
So I agree with onemorepassword's claim that nawitus's comment is indicative of dishonesty, because it demonstrates a level of confidence that no reasonable well-informed person would have, about the human ability to control events in advance, for a hundred thousand years.
(I don't agree with all of what onemorepassword says, especially the implication that the pro-nuclear crowd is more dishonest than the anti-nuclear.... 99% of the utterances by the anti-nuclear crowd are VERY dishonest.)