Biologist123

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by Biologist123 2y ago
I feel a curious mix of excitement and disconcerted to discover humans don’t really understand what matter is. Reading the article, I understood so little of it. And I guess it’s because so much of the language is just words chosen through
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by Biologist123 2y ago
Hoping for a cryptic answer?
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Man, if Australia can’t work this one out, there’s not much hope for the rest of us.
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by Biologist123 2y ago
I work in a sector where due to poor English and writing skills, OpenAI has been quite transformative in the quality of emails being sent - to me at least. But…I find my eyes glossing over when I notice ChatGPT’s telltale signs. Also on mat
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by Biologist123 2y ago
I sent the essay to several people, and a few wrote back to say they thought the writing excellent. This is not to undermine your point of view. You’re perfectly entitled to it. Rather to wonder what it is that causes different tastes and p
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by Biologist123 2y ago
Hey, didn’t you respond on quite an insightful comment which subsequently disappeared? Any idea what happened to it?
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by Biologist123 2y ago
The one thing we must do is somehow the one thing we cannot do. It’ll send you crazy if you think about it too much.
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Jacob's Dream: MAGA meets the age of Aquarius(harpers.org)
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by Biologist123 2y ago
> You may not like FB, IG, TikTok, etc.. I certainly don't care for any of these products. But these are communications platforms. Restricting the right to free speech does have negative consequences You’re conflating these tech pla
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by Biologist123 3y ago
Thank you for your thoughtful response. > Would you at least agree with me that the IRA was a good law, and it is real progress towards our green goals? I’m not American and whilst I’m aware of IRA and it’s broad objectives, I needed to
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by Biologist123 3y ago
Thanks for your response. Reading it, and your references to ESG lending, it appears we are talking across terms. If lack of clarity in my proposed problem statement was the reason for the confusion then my apologies. Let me state the probl
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by Biologist123 3y ago
> It’s simple. Tax the externality. In this case institute a carbon tax. A currently popular idea is “a revenue neutral carbon tax” in which funds raised are paid back out to low emitters. Maybe the progress of this idea will be a good b
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by Biologist123 3y ago
Firstly, I entirely agree with your point about planned economies. I would go slightly further and say that any system where power is centralised to too small a range of actors ultimately fares poorly, and monopoly of any type of power, gov
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by Biologist123 3y ago
Your (good) proposal is in fact formal G20 policy to meet the Sustainable Development Goals via the Hamburg Declaration. It is seen to have two problems: firstly, it is not politically viable to do it at scale as democratic countries won’t
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by Biologist123 3y ago
That’s a comfort to know, as that is precisely the type of project I build. I arrange guarantees for working capital loans to farmers which include in their terms requirements for a transition to sustainable agricultural practice. But this
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by Biologist123 3y ago
> But what exactly are you even asking the banks to do? I don’t think I’m asking banks to do anything in that comment. What I am trying to do is set out a problem statement, and given your knowledge (and handle), I’d greatly appreciate y
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by Biologist123 3y ago
Thank you for the opportunity to exchange views on this. I’m currently trying to write up my professional experience. I’m finding it challenging, but your response and the dialogue helps me sharpen my own understanding and thinking. Most of
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by Biologist123 3y ago
Maybe those aren’t the strong examples I believed them to be. My understanding was that both Kodak and Nokia struggled to adapt to the requirements of a new age, which is the point I’m making about banks, that like many businesses, they are
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by Biologist123 3y ago
This was very good. I’ve been working at the intersection of climate and finance for nearly 20 years, and I would add the following points to augment the story told in the podcast (article available on Apple Podcast). 1. Banks have enormou
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by Biologist123 3y ago
Afrikaans is basically low German, spoken in much of northwest Europe. Although Afrikaans throws in a few peculiarities (eg piesang - also Bahasa Indonesian). I know school history likes to pretend Afrikaans is Flemish, but really Flemish i
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by Biologist123 3y ago
I’ve wondered if the democratic process is really a civilized form of scape-goating. Elections are a pressure valve, meaning incumbent parties are ejected from office and fresh faces brought in, albeit often with little change in the polici
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by Biologist123 3y ago
He’s right in the sense that people, in today’s set up, don’t want to pay. But can we imagine a different choice architecture where people don’t mind giving up the black stuff?
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by Biologist123 3y ago
I hear what you’re saying, that children should be educated about the reality they find themselves in. If that is the case, and I would say their are exceptions until children are older, then strong guidelines are needed, partly because act
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by Biologist123 3y ago
The writer says: “[My children] are more viscerally worried about climate change”. I’m not surprised. I recently heard from a friend that her 7 year-old child had, as a class assignment, to create a timeline setting out the impact of climat
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by Biologist123 3y ago
A doctor friend refers to them as the chlamydia apps. But still uses them frequently.
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by Biologist123 3y ago
The job of corporate lawyer is so singularly awful, with awful colleagues, the firms have to pay the salaries as that is all there is.
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by Biologist123 3y ago
That would seem a fair insight. But then wonders what the drivers are.
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by Biologist123 3y ago
I wonder if Rosling’s conclusions are confounded. The human and environmental systems in which we swim are complex, not simple. Education being the key driver of population numbers strikes me as overly simple.
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by Biologist123 3y ago
Anecdata: investment in robot and 3D builders is ramping up in Germany in response to labour shortages and increasing costs. Source: a German friend in the sector. I guess it’s good this issue is being openly discussed. Having a good proble
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by Biologist123 3y ago
I really like this idea. There’s obviously a point where an idea crosses the membrane between individual human and human collective for the first time. And that is obviously not in universities anymore.

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