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by brutusborn 3y ago
It’s definitely not that simple. Ask yourself: why did the international committee use 2C as a limit? Why not 3C or 4C? I suspect is is because it is based on politics and not science but I’m open to being corrected. Also ask yourself: if f
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by brutusborn 3y ago
If you don’t know how bad it will get, how can you balance the negatives of remediation? For example, if the world was ending next year it might make sense to turn off all fossil fuels and eradicate most of the human population. But if it i
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by brutusborn 3y ago
Surely a physicist is best placed to ‘Nullius in Verba’ and to do his own research. Climate models are fundamentally physical simulations after all…
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by brutusborn 3y ago
Because science just updates our beliefs, it doesn’t produce ‘truths’ that we can follow. See the Problem of Induction or the Duhem–Quine thesis.
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by brutusborn 3y ago
Carbon capture is being successfully used all around the world. It’s in its infancy, but so were solar panels decades ago, and we didn’t give up on them. We don’t have enough data on geoengineering to judge yet, there is no real science to
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by brutusborn 3y ago
Bad analogy. If your house is on fire, there is no opportunity cost to putting it out and there is no uncertainty. You have nothing to lose. If an asteroid was headed for earth you would be on the money, but climate change isn’t like that.
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by brutusborn 3y ago
Close to 100% but not quite. I really like Marc Lewis and Allen Carr.
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by brutusborn 3y ago
Thanks for the reply, I was grumpy yesterday and pushed back a bit hard, I think I understand your nuance of choice of continuing addiction vs choice of developing addiction now. Out of interest, what addiction did she help you overcome?
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by brutusborn 3y ago
She has a fancy title and clinical experience… but is there any evidence that her ideas produce more effective treatments than others? I know it’s a hard thing to study but there are tomes written about addiction, and I am yet to find an ac
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by brutusborn 3y ago
“isn’t making that decision knowingly” suggests a lack of agency. Being compromised doesn’t remove your choices, it just makes them harder. Treating addicts like automatons stuck in a loop isn’t helpful. It seems to be the leading belief in
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by brutusborn 3y ago
Thanks for the reference. Do you know if Lembke has had much success in treating addiction? That is how I usually filter authors like this, there is too much content and almost none of it actually helps addicts. In my experience the mainstr
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by brutusborn 3y ago
I doubt even 0.01% of the people in this this thread are talking about spiking. That is a strawman. Your dictionary definition does not convince me that there is no decision been made, it is semantics.
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by brutusborn 3y ago
Drug addicts are not drugged against their will. In fact they are drugged due to their will. Homeless people may be victims of outside forces and we should support these people unconditionally. Some homeless are victims of their own bad dec
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by brutusborn 3y ago
For seriously private events, security confiscate the phone and/or beat the perpetrator until they delete photos. Talking about the photographers “rights” is an academic exercise. I’m not saying the reality is moral, I’m just explainin
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by brutusborn 3y ago
You are assuming that addicts have no agency, which as a former addict I reject. It is a pernicious idea because it feeds into beliefs of hopelessness. I’m not saying their choice is easy, but they have a choice. I wish I had footage of me
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by brutusborn 3y ago
Can you please explain? I can’t see the connection.
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by brutusborn 3y ago
Many nightclubs and parties have rules against photos to avoid embarrassment, and they can do this because they are private. But when people decide to behave indecently in public places, then I don’t think those sorts of norms should apply.
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by brutusborn 3y ago
It doesn’t really specify the risk though, the parts may not be critical. I would hope regulations require independent certification for critical parts, but I’m scared to look.
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by brutusborn 3y ago
It’s definitely possible, but the checking system was probably built under the implicit assumption that the sources of truth for the checks (datums, dimensions) were correct. 2 datums might need to be very similar but not quite the same, s
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by brutusborn 3y ago
Then we get a weapons race where 1. organised crime invests in high end pest control, 2. Cops start using robotic equivalent, 3. Organised crime invests in jamming systems / robotic defence / faraday cages
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Misinformation as a Symptom(twitter.com)
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by brutusborn 3y ago
Standard Deduction is $13,850 https://www.forbes.com/advisor/taxes/standard-deduction/ This is below the poverty level of $14,580. No-one should be taxed on income anywhere near that level. https:/&#x2F
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by brutusborn 3y ago
I don’t think that excerpt is false, or a good summary of the book really. My point is unless you understand the Georgist argument well, it is misguided to think there are better policies to prevent rent seeking causing housing crisis. When
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by brutusborn 3y ago
Purchasing assets under the expectation that values will increase _is_ speculation. The solution in LVT is staring you in the face, I don’t understand why you reflexively ignore it and reach for worse policies. Read “Progress and Poverty.”
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by brutusborn 3y ago
I’m not sure what system you are in, but in the US and Aus people pay tax on very low incomes. Look up the tax free threshold in Australia, it’s almost impossible to live on that income. If you can’t afford the LVT, you can either rent the
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by brutusborn 3y ago
I don’t class a person who inherits land as ‘the poorest.’ In reality, truly poor people are forced to pay income tax which I think is immoral. Most parts of the world had long periods where income taxes where nonexistent. We can do the sam
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by brutusborn 3y ago
7 years isn’t arbitrary? Jubilees are 50 years, which is also arbitrary. I don’t like the culture of huge debt either, but pretending solutions like this aren’t arbitrary is ridiculous. We have bankruptcy to prevent debt slavery (except for
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by brutusborn 3y ago
People speculate on housing mainly because it makes sense tax-wise. Georgist LVT is the best policy for preventing this. In many cities people endlessly sit on vacant blocks waiting for the market to move in their favour, with no disincenti
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by brutusborn 3y ago
Outlawing mortgages > 7 years would be counterproductive. This would just shift home ownership to richer people and reduce demand for new housing. The market will produce houses as cheap and small as people desire, the real limitation is
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by brutusborn 3y ago
The explicit world modelling is probably the thing that makes me more hopeful about their approach. I think integrating ML and their approach might end up being the new paradigm.

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