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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (604001)3/17/2011 12:45:56 AM
From: koan  Read Replies (3) of 1574495
 
<<To justify "spending" (meaning both spending and never generating in the first place combined) such huge fortunes on an effort to stop a disaster you don't just need an idea about how bad the disaster will be, but how likely it is, and how likely spending the money would be to stop it.

Look, the thesis is this. The human species, you and I , are both nuts and stupid. We don't think we are, but we are, and so is everyone on earth.

And besides that, the real problems are the Black Swans we cannot even see or imagine. When one is screwing around with nuclear power that can destroy the world, as not only a possibility but a probability, you do not put such dangers in peoples hands at all.

And as far a GW goes, if 99% of the top scientist say it could possibly destroy the world, and it is only a 10% chance you take it real fucking seirously.

Get it!
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