1/ Even after 18 years, people still wrongly believe in the "Y2K problem", such as in this thread below.https://twitter.com/thornae/status/979315944697810944 …
So the right takeaway, regardless, is not "we could have ignored it and it would have been aok, evidence: the bug was all hype"
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Is that strawman you set up & knocked down worth even one tweet? Did you read https://twitter.com/erratarob/status/980299321345232896?s=21 … or just reply to /1 in storm?
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Yup. Same with global warming. Yes, it's obviously a problem that needs to be addressed. But on the other hand, it's overhyped. And anybody who claims its overhyped is strawmanned into saying "there's no problem".
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Unless the economic, human and natural costs of overhyping, considered over a sufficiently long period of time, are higher than the corresponding benefits, then overhyping is the correct thing to do
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I would never argue that untruthfulness is the right thing.
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Underhyping would be equally untrue, and you can't assume you have the exact answer precisely right - you don't even have an actual answer to begin with - so what do you do? Criticize everyone because everyone is wrong to some degree?
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Well, no. Science measures uncertainty, so anything within the uncertainty bounds is reasonable. It's the stuff outside of those bounds that isn't reasonable.
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So you feel that we're currently doing *too much* about climate change?
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