Doomsday Clock at the shortest distance to midnight ever
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Doomsday Clock at the shortest distance to midnight ever
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#2How seriously should this be taken? It doesn't feel as if we're much closer than we have been?
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#3Since 1991, so almost three decades, it has only been moved back once, and then only by 1 second.
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#4Can we reference self fulfilling prophecy here? Subject-Expectancy Effect? I am all for taking stock of our world and trying to fix problems. But IMHO, seeing things like this is apt to make people say "FK IT, BURN IT DOWN!!!"
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#5The Doomsday Clock is a PR piece for a group of politicized scientists.
The threat of a nuclear catastrophe is higher now than it was during the Cuban missile crisis? That doesn't ring true.
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#6It's time to heed the calls to finally retire the theater of the clock. Its symbolic meaning has been stretched too far:
1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/time-to-stop-the-doomsday-clock...
2. https://thefederalist.com/2016/01/27/retire-the-doomsday-clo...
3. https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2018/01/26/why_its...
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#7How seriously should this be taken? It doesn't feel as if we're much closer than we have been?
Virus pandemics affecting global trade, climate change is starting to build steam and become irreversible, right-wing ethnocentric parties are taking over in much of the developed world.
How can you not take it seriously?
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#8How seriously should this be taken? It doesn't feel as if we're much closer than we have been?
About as serious as the stories Scientology sells.
Re: Doomsday Clock at the shortest distance to midnight ever
#9It's time to heed the calls to finally retire the theater of the clock. Its symbolic meaning has been stretched too far: 1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/time-to-stop-the-doomsday-clock... 2. https://thefederalist.com/2016/01/27/retire-the-doomsday-clo... 3. https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2018/01/26/why_its...
When the clock is almost always midnight, surely we are either on the cusp, or the time is set incorrectly. Although there are many things wrong I'd argue that we are nowhere near as bad off as during the peak of the cold war, for example.
Re: Doomsday Clock at the shortest distance to midnight ever
#10It's time to heed the calls to finally retire the theater of the clock. Its symbolic meaning has been stretched too far: 1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/time-to-stop-the-doomsday-clock... 2. https://thefederalist.com/2016/01/27/retire-the-doomsday-clo... 3. https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2018/01/26/why_its...
When the clock is almost always midnight, surely we are either on the cusp, or the time is set incorrectly. Although there are many things wrong I'd argue that we are nowhere near as bad off as during the peak of the cold war, for example.
I'd argue that with climate change, we're worse off than during the cold war. At least during the cold war, no one was arguing that nuclear annihilation wasn't a problem.