"The UK government wants to put a price on nature – but that will destroy it" - by @GeorgeMonbiot: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/15/price-natural-world-destruction-natural-capital …
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Replying to @samim @GeorgeMonbiot
More importantly, the article tries to confront an economic argument with a moralistic one. The problem is that the entities that he needs to fight are pretty much immune to moral weapons, which is why the UK government is looking to deploy economic forces.
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In the 21st century, "Money" is just a synonym for "Computation". Our current very crude cultural use of computation (not per-se the science) is a direct extension of the very short-sighted logic which has produced climate change (cult of growth, consumption, and fake certainty)pic.twitter.com/ceu34DAp7G
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Replying to @samim @GeorgeMonbiot
Computation is not the same thing as calculation, and if you are a computationalist, of course everything is a kind of computation. But that does not mean that computation is synonymous with money, any more than water is synonymous with snow.
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Your point of "confront an economic argument with a moralistic one" is interesting. Given that our current economic paradigm is suicidal, a practical (political) responds is urgent. Would argue, morals & education matter in this context. Thread:https://twitter.com/samim/status/1002570426021810176 …
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The nature of human beings implies that in the long run, their moral impulses tend to follow their actual incentives. Morals are not real, you don't wake up into them, you only go to sleep in them. The question is how to set the actual incentives properly.
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