by FishbellykanakaDude » Fri Jan 05, 2018 5:01 am
Tom Mazanec wrote:Anthropogenic Global Warming may not yet be a disaster or even a crisis, but it is a problem:
https://robertscribbler.com/
Bob, here, is an alarmist about the future, but he also points out trouble that AGW is already causing.
John, you might be right that the Singularity will solve this problem. But you might also be like those people who keep expecting the Second Coming. We don't know about something as novel as hyperhuman intelligence in a computer to say for sure one way or another.
You keep making jokes about global warming and the hypocrisy of people who fly around warning about it. If you weighed 275 pounds and your 275 pound doctor told you to lose weight, the fact that Doc could not live up to his own advice does not make his advice wrong.
The "Singularity" IS a "Second Coming",.. but so was peat, then coal, then petroleum, then atomic energy, then blah blah blah.
If "scientists" focused on "Don't Waste Stuff!" we'd respect them MUCH more. But they focus on "People are a CANCER!!", which, sensibly, annoys people greatly.
I personally intend to live on a tiny sailboat in the ocean, and "sponge" off "land resources" as little as possible, because I'm thrilled with the challenge of it! It simply sounds like a SHITLOAD of fun to me. And yes,.. I am a nut case, obviously. )
But, eventually, the "scientist" community will come to see that for mankind to really "progress" all that needs to be done is to waste as little as possible and don't crap in your bed any more than is absolutely necessary, while explaining to "the masses" that it's "scientific sense" to form governmental systems that protect their citizens from "involuntary trade" (thievery) so that they (citizens/mankind) are as free as possible to think up nifty ways to solve that "Don't Waste Shit!" philosophy.
"Global Climate Change" IS (not "might be") this planets way of dealing with whatever it's dealing with, geophysically and astrophysically, at this time in history.
I have faith that the goal of those "dealings" will make humanity stronger and more "fit" to carry on our purpose here.
I pity those who don't have that faith, but I do understand how they can think the way they do, as to think that way is encouraged by those who would enslave mankind for their own peculiar purposes, and can pay quite well indeed,.. at least in the short term.
Aloha!
<shaka!>
[quote="Tom Mazanec"]Anthropogenic Global Warming may not yet be a disaster or even a crisis, but it is a problem:
https://robertscribbler.com/
Bob, here, is an alarmist about the future, but he also points out trouble that AGW is already causing.
John, you might be right that the Singularity will solve this problem. But you might also be like those people who keep expecting the Second Coming. We don't know about something as novel as hyperhuman intelligence in a computer to say for sure one way or another.
You keep making jokes about global warming and the hypocrisy of people who fly around warning about it. If you weighed 275 pounds and your 275 pound doctor told you to lose weight, the fact that Doc could not live up to his own advice does not make his advice wrong.[/quote]
The "Singularity" IS a "Second Coming",.. but so was peat, then coal, then petroleum, then atomic energy, then blah blah blah.
If "scientists" focused on "Don't Waste Stuff!" we'd respect them MUCH more. But they focus on "People are a CANCER!!", which, sensibly, annoys people greatly.
I personally intend to live on a tiny sailboat in the ocean, and "sponge" off "land resources" as little as possible, because I'm thrilled with the challenge of it! It simply sounds like a SHITLOAD of fun to me. And yes,.. I am a nut case, obviously. )
But, eventually, the "scientist" community will come to see that for mankind to really "progress" all that needs to be done is to waste as little as possible and don't crap in your bed any more than is absolutely necessary, while explaining to "the masses" that it's "scientific sense" to form governmental systems that protect their citizens from "involuntary trade" (thievery) so that they (citizens/mankind) are as free as possible to think up nifty ways to solve that "Don't Waste Shit!" philosophy.
"Global Climate Change" IS (not "might be") this planets way of dealing with whatever it's dealing with, geophysically and astrophysically, at this time in history.
I have faith that the goal of those "dealings" will make humanity stronger and more "fit" to carry on our purpose here.
I pity those who don't have that faith, but I do understand how they can think the way they do, as to think that way is encouraged by those who would enslave mankind for their own peculiar purposes, and can pay quite well indeed,.. at least in the short term.
Aloha! :) <shaka!>