
Ep 16: Ch 9, Part 1: "Optimism"
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Blind Pessimism Is a Blindly Optimistic Doctrine
Blind pessimism is a blindly optimistic doctrine. It assumes that unforeseen disastrous consequences cannot follow from existing knowledge too, or rather to existing ignorance. The harm that can flow from any innovation that does not destroy the growth of knowledge is always finite. There would be no existing ship designs to stick with, nor records to stay within, if no one had ever violated the precautionary principle. Soat present, it is pause ten and this is my reflection in brief concerns about climate change.
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