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Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by matmatmatmat »

jjulius wrote: post #9
0xy wrote: post #6

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>NOAA was caught using data from weather stations with faulty equipment and positioned next to new heat sources and only moved to correct the issue when confronted so I'd say this is entirely justified. The first step in any scientific process is clean data. Assuming this uncited assertion is true, why would it be "entirely justified" to simply remove it without any particular reason as to why, nor discussion around…

Yes, normally in a case where data were later shown to have been taken incorrectly, you would remove just the incorrect data but leave an unmodified copy of the old data available somewhere. Or, just leave a very prominent note about the change with a detailed explanation somewhere else. You would not take down everything because 1. That would deprive taxpayers of the correct data they had already paid for, and 2. That would mess up the data ingestion pipelines of the researchers who depended on the data.

Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by MangoToupe »

janice1999 wrote: post #4
aaroninsf wrote: post #3

The current administration is not merely racists, autocratic, and hell bent on insuring all wealth is held by the oligarch class, it is also engaged in the most venal, short-sighted, and destructive assault on the basic functions of governance and civil society I can imagine. I don't care what one's view is on the appropriate scale and role of federal governance, some operations are best and only accomplished at that…

Destroying federal governance seems on point for people who read Yarvin and want to rule feudal micro-states as techno-kings.

Wow, that's possibly the bleakest set of opinions I've ever seen detailed.

I can't help but think that this is typical self-loathing and ensuing self-destruction turned towards society itself. I need to read his actual writing, though. I'm sure there's also some element of actively pandering towards people in power desperate to justify their hold through some ideology.

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Post by jfengel »

amarcheschi wrote: post #7
janice1999 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Destroying federal governance seems on point for people who read Yarvin and want to rule feudal micro-states as techno-kings.

I guess they see themselves as high officers in those states. I fail to understand how someone could read about living in a dictatorship and go "yeah, I would like to live like that"

You don't have to see yourself as a high officer. You just have to imagine that you will be restored to your deserved state. In that state you are slightly better than average, and only those who are morally defective suffer. (Those are the ones who are now unjustly keeping you from succeeding on your merits.)

The high officials are the truly great ones who have restored the natural order. You don't need that. You just require being recognized as somewhat better than most.

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Post by anigbrowl »

amarcheschi wrote: post #7
janice1999 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Destroying federal governance seems on point for people who read Yarvin and want to rule feudal micro-states as techno-kings.

I guess they see themselves as high officers in those states. I fail to understand how someone could read about living in a dictatorship and go "yeah, I would like to live like that"

Evidence suggests ~30% of people are content to be worse off in order to inflict a larger loss upon others. This paper makes for rather grim reading but imho provides a very useful heuristic for understanding the political enfironment in an era of mass communication.

Humans display a reduced set of consistent behavioral phenotypes in dyadic games

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451

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