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maybe locally but certainly not systematically the problems of the world are not in my departmenthttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/871515755602485248?s=19 …
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but local problems are born from systematical problems (or, at least, from very wide-spread problems)https://twitter.com/erin_nerung/status/1141242446686371840?s=19 …
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it hurts personally, but it comes from a place of widespread uncertainty solving it locally works, but is a solution good enough if it doesn't tackle the problem in its entirety?
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Solving problems locally is efficient even in this world. First, concentrating on solving issues locally insulates me from reliance on broken systems. Second, I don't actually have any ability to solve systematic problems and so effort expended toward that end is wasted.
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Is difficulty in scaling up solutions a local or global problem? If everyone solves their local problems will all problems be solved or are some problems intrinsically global? If we can solve a problem N people have in common why can't we solve a problem N+1 people have?
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Some problems are intrinsically global for sure. Emergent properties, neighborhood effects, all of that. I can come up with or advocate for nice solutions to some of these problems (and indeed they're often widely known!) but implementation is another enchilada entirely.
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The coming up with solutions bit was fun for a while until I learned about advocacy and implementation and idk at this point I almost prefer the problems
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There is a meta problem of localizing global problems and making them amenable to efficient solution. It remains unsolved for our society as presently constituted.
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I mean--most of these problems have theoretical solutions. Pigouvian taxes, that sort of thing. The difficulty lies in engineering--econometrics is just not up to this with the current data and toolset--and more importantly, in political execution.
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this had a major effect on my turn toward epicureanism, honestlyhttps://www.vox.com/2016/10/18/13012394/i-732-carbon-tax-washington …
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