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Thank you for characterizing my remarks. Now, if you don't mind, could you please address the issue of scale. As example, is there not a profound diff...
October 18, 2018 at 22:38
That's not the case at all. There's nothing stopping us from updating our relationship with knowledge to adapt to the new environment that's been crea...
October 18, 2018 at 16:16
Indeed. Some people are good at that, and others not so much, like everything else. Huge brained profound philosopher grand thinker peeps like us ofte...
October 18, 2018 at 16:11
Thank you. I want that too. And so the next question becomes, are we willing to pay the price tag for what we both want? If your neighbor can do somet...
October 18, 2018 at 16:03
No offense, and this may not apply to you, but the vast majority of Schopenhauer flavored posts on philosophy forums appear to be written by college s...
October 18, 2018 at 15:50
How are you going to fund what you've actually proposed? You give sound bite answers to this, while investing post after post after post in expressing...
October 18, 2018 at 15:40
Ok, yes, as I suspected. You're not actually interested in the topic, you're interested in debating. You don't want to answer a simple yes or no quest...
October 18, 2018 at 15:37
Well, they are interesting to the degree they illustrate a social phenomena. People like Hawkings are obviously very good at science. Some scientists,...
October 18, 2018 at 15:34
Yes, that's it. I understand what you're saying better than you do. I get that having this revealed to the world in print is annoying to you, and I do...
October 18, 2018 at 15:26
And that particular approach is a technical approach. And you chose a technical approach because you see climate change as a technical problem requiri...
October 18, 2018 at 15:19
Whenever I attempt to inspect those specific ideas with specific questions, you find the inspection inconvenient and either ignore the questions compl...
October 18, 2018 at 13:06
The premise of this thread which does not belong to you is that this is a technical problem requiring a technical solution. You appear to accept this ...
October 18, 2018 at 13:03
How do we mortgage an asset which can never be used, and thus has no value? How do we protect large scale solar array installations on the surface of ...
October 18, 2018 at 12:12
Here's an analogy which may help explain my focus in this thread. Let's say a religious person starts a thread where they want to debate Bible verse i...
October 18, 2018 at 12:01
Is that a yes or a no?
October 18, 2018 at 09:01
Do you want your next door neighbor to be able to create new life forms in his garage workshop?
October 17, 2018 at 21:50
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/3728/the-knowledge-explosion
October 17, 2018 at 11:55
It sounds absurd, until we understand what the alternative is. Do you want your next door neighbor to be able to buy a kit on Amazon which allows him ...
October 17, 2018 at 00:02
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October 16, 2018 at 20:14
Here's photographic proof that the SS storm trooper mods are massing for another assault on incoherent lazy posts! Run everyone, run!! https://incoher...
October 16, 2018 at 16:10
How do we sustain vast solar panel arrays on the ocean, given that oceans routinely experience storms, and sometimes those storms are very powerful?
October 16, 2018 at 14:32
How do we mortgage an asset which can never be used, and thus has no value? Have you considered that maybe we're not discussing the ideas in your open...
October 16, 2018 at 14:30
SIMPLISTIC PARADIGM: Our children should have as much knowledge and power as possible, as soon as possible! More and more and more power, faster, fast...
October 16, 2018 at 14:28
Ha, ha! Comedians, that's how we save the world, more comedians. I was once having this conversation on a forum of working scientists and one of the "...
October 16, 2018 at 00:28
Yes, exactly right. But philosophically speaking, standing still is what doing. You keep defending a "more is better" relationship with knowledge whic...
October 15, 2018 at 23:05
1) I've discussed the philosophy behind your ideas because, um, this is a philosophy forum. And not an energy forum. 2) This thread doesn't belong to ...
October 15, 2018 at 22:32
Maybe what should be missing from political discourse is you and me? I've been a news junkie for 50 years. Not sure what this hobby has accomplished r...
October 15, 2018 at 15:50
Check out BBC radio. In my area they're on the PBS channel during the very early morning hours (prior to 6am). I've listened to NPR for years, but mus...
October 15, 2018 at 15:49
Speaking of renewables, check out this very informative documentary on Netflix which focuses on an all important element of renewables, batteries. NOV...
October 15, 2018 at 13:31
Again, which scientists or other cultural leaders are arguing that we should do less science? If you can not name anyone, or only a few, then doesn't ...
October 15, 2018 at 11:45
Thus proving that humans are of limited ability, limited rationality, limited sanity. It's upon that real world evidence that I'm arguing that the pow...
October 15, 2018 at 08:59
Please list for us the scientists and other cultural elites who argue we should be doing less science. The cultural consensus is that we should learn ...
October 14, 2018 at 22:54
Ok, yes, but should the top 20% own 90% of the wealth? If you answer yes, then what's the limit? 95%? 99%?
October 14, 2018 at 22:42
Is capitalism dependent upon stupidity? In America today very few people hold the majority of wealth. And the rest of us just go along with that, dist...
October 14, 2018 at 11:05
Perhaps this is another thread, but I've been impressed by these stats from a Washington Post article. Point being, you, me and 80% of Americans are s...
October 14, 2018 at 09:36
First, there is some prospect of managing science and technology, we're already doing that. The question I'm raising is, can we successfully manage un...
October 14, 2018 at 09:24
Yes, that's the equation I'm urging readers to consider. The reality is that human beings are limited, just like everything else in nature. Theories t...
October 14, 2018 at 00:21
That's it, well said as usual Mr. Crank.
October 14, 2018 at 00:08
Had that happened, that process would have given us more power sooner. How does this solve the problem that adult human beings, like their children, a...
October 13, 2018 at 23:57
Ok, I get that this is your position. I'm just suggesting that this assertion may need some further clarification. So far, it's just an assertion. As ...
October 13, 2018 at 10:43
No offense, but I understand that this is just too vague to keep my interest. Let's try again in another thread, and thanks for the chat.
October 13, 2018 at 08:34
Pain. We'll just keep on being reckless until we finally hit a wall and enter a period of great crisis. After enormous suffering common sense will onc...
October 13, 2018 at 00:28
1) What is your paradigm exactly? It sounds like a science worshiping religion to me, something about how everyone will somehow magically become ratio...
October 13, 2018 at 00:18
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October 12, 2018 at 08:06
Huh?
October 11, 2018 at 23:39
I've been attempting to say much more on this topic in the other thread, or we could do it here, either is fine. Ok, how does that work exactly? Can y...
October 11, 2018 at 22:11
The nature of science is to develop knowledge, which typically is then converted in to some form of power, ie. an ability to manipulate the environmen...
October 11, 2018 at 21:17
Nothing much happened here, the storm went around us. A slight change in path would have changed that. We're in the middle of the penisula, so no stor...
October 11, 2018 at 21:09
Not quite it, but thank you for reading enough to get that far. To quickly summarize my thesis is that scientific progress if pursued without limits w...
October 10, 2018 at 22:36
Consider the noun. It's purpose is to conceptually divide one part of reality from another.
October 10, 2018 at 22:23