Loquebantur

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by Loquebantur 3mo ago
There is no dichotomy between preparing for the inevitable and preventing the preventable. Painting the actions of people on the other side of the planet as "out of anybody's control" is hubris though. Humanity very well is c
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by Loquebantur 3mo ago
What is indicative of escalating climate catastrophe is indeed the intensity and frequency of those firestorms, not any lack of precedent for a cloud shape. But the really salient observation is how people individually and their social sy
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by Loquebantur 3mo ago
A rational approach to existential threats is indeed good advice, but to surrender in the face of complexity is not. The human induced climate catastrophe is due to a systemic failure and consequentially needs to be addressed on a systemic
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by Loquebantur 3mo ago
The human induced climate catastrophe has reached unprecedented levels because of humanity's continued failure to correctly integrate that reality into their decisions and the resulting inaction. Landes & Médoc serve as an immediat
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by Loquebantur 3mo ago
People in the climate movement are rarely professional PR folks. Weaponizing their personal faults against the objective subject matter they talk about is disingenuous anyway? You cannot deduce factual correctness from how "holy"
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by Loquebantur 3mo ago
It maybe would, if people were to read it in the first place. But they don't: they go to the comments here first and try to get the gist of reactions, in order to save themselves the time to actually read the piece. You pretend, it was
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by Loquebantur 3mo ago
Only, while such work is necessary it's also insufficient . You point at the actual problem yourself: political obstruction and funding going to the opposite. The relevant issues here are ironically precisely those you can solve b
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by Loquebantur 3mo ago
You're right about the general sentiment acknowledging the seriousness only when you look at the center and left of society. The majority in the US however supports or tolerates the actual political decisions made, contradicting that l
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by Loquebantur 3mo ago
The El Niño reading there corresponds with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) collapsing. The result of such a collapse is a complete upheaval of global climate patterns, destroying agricultural production on a civilizat
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by Loquebantur 3mo ago
The point isn't whether it's true about you in particular, it's about the actual effect it has on the general audience. Improving the design of that article will do absolutely nothing for its public reception. Voicing reasona
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by Loquebantur 3mo ago
The economic system itself is incompatible with the physical reality of a finite planet. The ones steering society choose to crash and ruin everything rather than to jeopardize their positions in power. That obvious failure in morals and et
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by Loquebantur 4mo ago
One should teach the next generation the best way possible, and not turn them into conformists. "Standards" are things to be overcome when they've outlived their prime. Disparaging new ideas as "niche" and "spe
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by Loquebantur 4mo ago
People here are missing that they're not dismantling random things. There is a system to it, the objective of which is far more sinister than mere ideology. The sensors in question here are crucial to monitor the Atlantic Meridional
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by Loquebantur 4mo ago
You consistently try to re-frame the matter in a factually incorrect way. While average individuals do have responsibility, theirs is many orders of magnitude smaller. Not only from their personal impact being comparatively minuscule, but
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by Loquebantur 4mo ago
It certainly doesn't help them , but it does help others reading the comment chain.
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by Loquebantur 4mo ago
Boiling you slowly still means they're boiling you. They don't boil you fast, because they can't: you would balk at that. In other words, taken together, they do all they can to boil you on that issue and kill ad-blockers.
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by Loquebantur 4mo ago
Your simplistic take is fundamentally wrong. It would take someone in the bottom 99% of the world's population more than 1,500 years to match the personal lifetime carbon footprint of a billionaire. People in the top 1% can be attribut
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by Loquebantur 4mo ago
Them becoming carbonless would already cut 16.5% of emissions. Together with their investments they are responsible for 25% of emissions. But more importantly, the reason nothing is happening to cut the systemic reasons for the pollution
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by Loquebantur 4mo ago
No, you're entirely wrong. The impact an individual has on carbon emissions is directly correlated with their wealth. The distribution of which is extremely uneven: as of 2024, the top 1% worldwide possessed as much as the lower 95%
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by Loquebantur 4mo ago
The idea of average individuals being the relevant actors in global carbon emissions is pure misdirection. They're not, it's systemic with industry being the main culprit and the rich being the ones who benefit from that soc
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by Loquebantur 4mo ago
The "shill" phenomenon goes much further than ignorant laypeople. The AMOC shutdown isn't merely "possible" and due "this century". The math of the dynamics of complex systems shows the current behavior to
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by Loquebantur 4mo ago
American models are restricted from telling you inconvenient truths just as much, you just erroneously assume to know what those truths are in the first place. Which is of course circular thinking: why would they restrict things you already
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by Loquebantur 5mo ago
Parachutes don't repeat their motions exactly. This here is a caustic reflection and it does when the object re-assumes the same relative position. Military aircraft IR systems don't have lenses, so there is no lens flare. The blo
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by Loquebantur 5mo ago
That's very obviously not a parachute? The "star shaped" object moves relative to it akin to a reflection actually. The interesting question here is, whether that is "white hot" or "black hot" imagery. The
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by Loquebantur 5mo ago
Humans have extremely limited understanding of their own processing? When you ask a human why they did something wrong, they usually confabulate an answer as well. Human conscious introspection doesn't extend to actual processing, it
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by Loquebantur 6mo ago
"Maybe"? You actively enable that corruption and advocate for turning a blind eye to it and the consequences. Those "overemployed" people are your bosses, indeed unable to keep up, steering you into the situation of &quo
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by Loquebantur 6mo ago
Your interpretation is wildly off, but obviously nobody reads that "system card": The model has a preference for the cultural theorist Mark Fisher and the philosopher of mind Thomas Nagel. -> It has actually read and understood
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by Loquebantur 6mo ago
"Morals" are culturally learned evaluations of social context. They are more or less (depending on cultural development of the society in question) correlated with the actual distributions of outcomes and their valence for involve
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by Loquebantur 6mo ago
The central point here is the presence of functional circuits in LLMs that act effectively on observable behavior just like emotions do in humans. When you can't differentiate between two things, how are they not equal? People here w
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by Loquebantur 7mo ago
“We’ve actually held our red lines with integrity rather than colluding with them to produce ‘safety theater’ for the benefit of employees (which, I absolutely swear to you, is what literally everyone at [the Pentagon], Palantir, our politi

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