Your frequent reminder that the world could have defeated climate change in the 1980s if all industrialized nations had followed France's lead.
Alexander Kruel
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Alexander Kruel
@XiXiDu
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality” ― Seneca
- Look closely. Everything is covered with fiber-optic cables.
00:00 - What does it feel like to build a dam for the beaver? Does it feel like compulsive behavior? I doubt it. If it could talk, it would say that it is fun and satisfying, that it is rational to build dams, and a religious duty. It would claim to possess free will.Not a single drop of water is getting past that bad boy.
- Replying to @XiXiDuThis would have been vastly cheaper than what nations are now pledging to spend in order to combat climate change. Most importantly, it would have been a solution compatible with further growth. But environmentalists sabotaged this technological solution.
- High-IQ people with their high-IQ children living in a high-IQ bubble think this is easy for 5-year-olds.Francois Chollet says the ARC challenge for AI is easy even for 5 year olds. Can a 5 year old help me with this please?
- Replying to @XiXiDuAnd the same people who now claim that we face an extinction event and that we need to dismantle capitalism are still against nuclear.
- Photoreal Roman Emperor Project medium.com/@voshart/photo… "Using the neural-net tool Artbreeder, Photoshop and historical references, I have created photoreal portraits of Roman Emperors...I have transformed, or restored 800 images of busts to make the 54 emperors..."
- Replying to @XiXiDuThey claim it is too expensive (more expensive than dismantling capitalism?). They claim it is too dangerous (more dangerous than global extinction?). And they claim that it takes too long (France showed that it can be done quickly.).
- Not even present people are like us. These stats from Papua New Guinea remind us that civilization is a thin veneer over barbarism: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_vi… This is typical among hunter-gatherer societies: 1. archive.is/secqy 2. archive.is/bx4rs
Replying to @robinhansonMy wife is a classics professor. Her field thinks that people in the classical age were basically like us. - Replying to @XiXiDuSome additional notes: 1. Nuclear waste isn't a problem.MYTH: We don't have a solution to nuclear's "waste problem" REALITY: Nuclear waste isn't a problem. In fact, it’s the best solution we have to meeting our energy needs while protecting the natural environment! Here's what you need to know:
