And when you say you don't care about policy, you're saying there is no practical implication of this for anyone's decision-making? Or are you saying that whatever practical implication it has isn't something that you consider policy-relevant?
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Fair. But I'm frustrated that people are holding on to a claim that is unrelated to evidence in a discussion that started with policy relevance - otherwise, why is the claim that the difference is immutable? (This point was discussed extensively in the original article.)
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my actual view: we're talking about gaining mastery over the stuff of life and you're worried about short-term policy? on our current trajectory, by the end of the century none of that extremely boring tribal stuff is going to matter
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I'm worried about long term policy, but I think this debate illustrates why we can't have nice things.
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