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It’s never been about time either. I’ve concluded there are no collective action mechanisms capable of manifesting that kind of intentionality. Not even if the most advanced authoritarian world government under most benevolent version of Kim Jong-un appeared magically tomorrow
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i guess it depends on the scale and costs. re geoengineering the aerosol stuff could be super cost effective, and highly leveraged in preventing positive feedbacks. but we haven't done the experiments to confirm it, it's guessing
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My point is, it’s not the technology difficulty thay will stop us (though that part is hard too), but political action difficulty. We learned that with Covid. Moonshot vaccine project actually worked… and then doubt merchanting on talk radio shows gave away half the win.
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I agree with that, but I'm kind of just bought in to the idea that a mere billionaire with intent can just unilaterally do geoengineering stuff *and have an effect* the political downstream unintended consequences could still be worse, but it's not obvious that they would be
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