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by notabee 8y ago
It's almost like capitalism is extraordinarily inefficient at using resources due to perverse incentives caused by only taking local rewards and consequences into account instead of the entire closed planet system, and will simply run
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The issue is energy. Energy to build the robots, energy to power their efforts. Both the power and the plastics come from the same finite fossil fuel resources and will get ever more expensive as extracting that resource gets more expensive
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As we come to understand how much genetic expression is tied to environmental influences, such as with epigenetics silencing certain genes, all of these genetics/environment dichotomies are going to become less distinct. We need to tal
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Let's not forget the massive extortion going on with drug prices as well. Also, there seems to be an issue these days with having enough independent replication of results by people who are not on company payrolls, or with selective pu
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No one has the time, energy, or capacity to become expert in all domains within a complex civilization that could materially affect them. You are confusing "better equipped" with "having the most substantial interest". A
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The people immersed in technology should also be the ones to best understand both its potential and its limitations. Anyone who has dealt with the unpredictability and pitfalls in maintaining human-created complex software systems should al
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I agree. As imperfect and corrupt as it is, democratic representation in government has taken a very long time to develop out of previous eras of might makes right. People who advocate for permanent dismantling of government instead of rebu
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Knowing what should be forgotten requires either foreknowledge of the future or relies on inaccurate predictions based on current assumptions. Thus the less information of uncertain usefulness that is retained, the more that those assumptio
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Yes, that's unfortunately true as well. Poor people tend to find housing in hazardous areas, and the developmental damage from some things, like lead poisoning, are permanent. Chronic stress also hampers physical development. To see ho
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Privilege begets privilege. There are many students with the mental potential to get all A's in school that do not, often due largely to family discord and stress from poverty. Coming from a privileged background of a stable family wit
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This is so important. Picking one's battles and being diplomatic is just as important to getting things done as being correct. If you create a lot of noise over minor things, no one will want to listen when it's something critical
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I think you misunderstand how I'm aiming this. I would honestly rather explore more socialist approaches, or at least worker co-ops, because I feel that corporate capitalism carries within its nature its own destabilization through reg
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To add to your point, I think there would be ways to give more granular, specific assistance instead of just throwing money at people. Buying things like housing, food, and healthcare at scale makes sense for a government to do, as it shoul
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I feel like the Dunning-Kruger effect plays a big part in the problem. Many people feel an illusory confidence in their capacity to understand a problem domain, whether they are in the role of the rebellious person or the law enforcer. Cons
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Industrial society is itself rapidly approaching overshoot of the habitability of this planet. Without being able to fully, artificially generate everything from food to atmosphere without it being subsidized by natural resources that are n
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You're assuming that his decision was an individual one decided solely for his own reasons, which is not a supportable assumption to make yet.
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That's not even getting in to the current mess of Amazon Logistics deliveries. I thought perhaps it was just my bad luck, but a quick search online shows that their attempt to save money on shipping by doing it themselves has comically
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Even if Tesla was engaging in similar games, there's a lot more money and resources on the opposing sides, because he's created a lot of opposition. I'm not a fan in general of one person having ridiculous amounts of money
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I want you to run with this thought wherever it takes you: 1. Tesla is heavily shorted. 2. Tesla and SpaceX are disrupting heavily entrenched industries (and we could argue a lot about how much or how effectively, but let's not). 3. It
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I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were inexperienced with searching the internet for information. Here's some handy links with some numbers: https://www.co2.earth/global-co2-emissions https://www.ear
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Not only would this not be a problem for many decades even if carbon capture is wildly successful, but releasing carbon into the air is much, much easier than pulling it back out. If that were not true, we would not be facing the catastroph
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We are going to need a staggering amount of renewable power anyways, but this could at least partly answer the concern of how to store that renewable power since it is variable in its output.
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The reason is simple: we've already put enough CO2 into the atmosphere to cause adverse changes over a long period of time. A lot of the IPCC models and their discussion centers around more near-term climate threats over the next 100 y
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This technology is one answer to an often-heard criticism (often presented with dubious motivation). The criticism is that storing solar or wind energy for when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing is a problem with ren
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The concepts of populism and demagoguery are also being cynically used to target those movements that do prize nuanced, strategic planning for the future that happen to also conflict with wealthy interests. The whole horseshoe theory is an
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I have a little retirement fund, and I also think that if I focused too much on it, I would neglect enjoying our present level of civilization while it lasts. You're the one arguing to absurdity (heat death of the universe), because it
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Long term investment is speculation if it's predicated on an economic system that requires infinitely increasing growth on a completely finite planet with diminishing resources and no clear guarantee that we can fix any overshoot by go
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I think you missed my point. If survival of human groups generally occurred at the tribal level, i.e. either a tribe successfully cooperated and survived or suffered excessive discord and died out unless they were adopted by a different tri
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Humans have many traits that seem to support survival at the tribal level, and having a spectrum of homosexual and heterosexual individuals could well have supported child rearing or reduced divisive competition. Just look at bonobos.
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There was a study recently that (in a mouse model) linked residual soap from baby wipes to food allergy development. https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2018/april/food-allerg...

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