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(17,166 posts)You are a pirate!
Thank goodness I found Yasha Levine.
You know..I actually needed Yasha Levine specifically. Well..my politics and views as expressed in my journal are.. well they represent a scientist who..
I don’t see a point in bullshit. In fact, damn you I would… like the Red Dragon.. force you to read my bad journals as a ..
Thankfully Prof Hennessy, I am reforming the parts of my social brain, your horrible Google laid waste to and odds are the same thing could work for my work brain. Because this was totally something you inflicted!
You are a terrible admin.
I used to think you were a bad person. But then I saw you and read your work and felt vaguely sorry for you.
I am actually offering you an olive branch because I think these culture wars are distracting from an understanding I am trying to form of your mind.
I am not oblivious to the math underlying reality. The part that is confusing is guys like you. You are kind of interesting.
Not interesting the way 99% of the messaging in this society tied as it is to this one specific dreary technological, narrowly GDP growth driven it is.
What is fascinating professor is how one can almost see everything proceeding in among the most diseased and least sane ways.
Surely if this is true, there is no way we can be the only option..I always hated these societies. There was never a time when I thought witj the sole exception of science, most human endeavors are kinda stupid. Because more convenient hedonism and that then being a Ponzis scheme justifying even more..Prof Steve Chu gets it! But you go and hang out with those bottom of the class types like Marc Andreessen and Sam Altman where Prof Chu, who is legitimately hardcore ans seems to have a well-rounded comprehension of how reality works..
We must be one of the more diseased branches and I suppose we would want to go and destroy everything. I recently had a physical-mathematical intuition about how reality works. And started wondering “How would Prof Hennessy somehow find a way to break all of not an infinite but every relatively probable reality?”
I am kind of there..I like you Prof Hennessy.
You see I have a very Hannah Arendt worldview and this all actually fits it without any unfair dismissal of the left. But the fact that we are here means that the left has evidently focused too much on malice sometimes and ignored the well-intentioned dangerous clunkiness of people whose narrow growth based math and
You are a very satisfying antagonist Prof Hennessy. I don’t like thinking about people one cannot respect. I like to think about you and what a really terribly limited imagination in combination with material muscle can do.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2019/04/05/the-world-economy-is-a-pyramid-scheme-steven-chu-says/
The World Economy Is A Pyramid Scheme, Steven Chu Says
ByJeff McMahon,Former Contributor. Reporting from Europe, Jeff McMahon covers the environment.
Apr 05, 2019 at 12:01am EDT
The world economy is based on ever-increasing population, said Nobel laureate Steven Chu, a scheme that economists don’t talk about and that governments won’t face, a scheme that makes sustainability impossible and that is likely to eventually fail.
“The world needs a new model of how to generate a rising standard of living that’s not dependent on a pyramid scheme,” Chu said at the University of Chicago.
Chu didn’t specify what that new model would look like, but he offered a solution to the population growth the current one relies on.
“Increased economic prosperity and all economic models supported by governments and global competitors are based on having more young people, workers, than older people,” Chu said. “Two schemes come to mind. One is the pyramid scheme. The other is the Ponzi scheme. I’m not going to explain them both to you, you can look it up. But it’s based on growth, in various forms.”
For example, healthy young workers pay the health care costs for aging workers and retirees, the former energy secretary said, a scheme that requires increasing numbers of young workers. And economic growth requires more and more people to buy more and more stuff, with dire environmental consequences.
There are at least two problems with that:
“Depending on a pyramid scheme or a Ponzi scheme, there’s no such thing as sustainability,” Chu said.
As standards of living increase, population growth declines. So if the economy succeeds in raising standards of living, it undermines itself.
“The economists know this, but they don’t really talk about it in the open, and there’s no real discussion in government,” Chu said. “Every government says you have to have an increase in population, whether you do it through immigrants or the home population. So, this is a problem.”
China has replaced its one-child policy with incentives for parents to have two children, Chu noted as an example, and France offers a prize, the Médaille de la Famille Française, to mothers of large families. Incentives like these will not help the world achieve sustainability, he said.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2019/04/04/meat-and-agriculture-are-worse-for-the-climate-than-dirty-energy-steven-chu-says/
ByJeff McMahon,Former Contributor. Reporting from Europe, Jeff McMahon covers the environment.
Chu lumped the greenhouse gas emissions from meat and dairy with other agricultural practices, such as fertilizer, and land-use changes, such as deforestation and soil disruption. He weighted the resulting greenhouse gases for lifetime and potency, showing that emissions from agriculture are a bigger problem than emissions from energy.
“Let me say it again: agriculture and land-use generates more greenhouse gas emissions than power generation.”
Chu described the unnatural effects of industrial agriculture: what he called “oversexed corn” that devotes all its life energy to making giant kernels, pigs that gain 280 pounds in a matter of months, turkeys so breast-heavy they can’t mate and must be artificially inseminated—a planet dominated by animals modified and raised and slaughtered to feed humans.
Chu is not the first to suggest that experts underestimate the climate impact of animal agriculture. Experts typically attribute about 15 percent of the world’s carbon emissions to livestock, but the Worldwatch Institute audited that number in 2009 and found uncounted emissions that bring the livestock contribution to 51 percent.
The answer, to Chu, is biotechnology. He profiled fake meat—highlighting the brands Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat—and a symbiotic fertilizer technology.
Chu is a Stanford professor not only of physics—the field in which he won the 1997 Nobel Prize—but also of molecular and cellular physiology. His lecture was hosted not only by the Energy Policy Institute of Chicago (for whom I sometimes host podcasts), but also by the Institute for Molecular Engineering. And his solutions to climate change reveal a bent for engineering and biotechnology.
You know Prof Hennessy, Steve Chu actually sounds sane. He sounds like a regular scientist. I often find that mix of bullshit and austerity that comes out of the proponents of lousy shit so alien. That is at least not the nicer scientists and oddly probably the ones who will be correct unlike your “Don’t Look Up” billionaires.
Your school made it
Society including me - we needed tough love of the kind educators mete out. Not this DOGE/Russell Vought or in my case its silent precursor, Reefer Madness as healthcare 🙄.
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