Comments by "ProfSteveKeen" (@ProfSteveKeen) on "Lex Fridman" channel.

  1. I did indeed  @cosmicninjaSN8 . I drove there in a hired Tesla as well, so all up, chatting with Lex, seeing the Giga Factory, and wandering around Starbase was quite the Geekiday for me.
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  2. I'd be worried if they did hold me in high regard, given what I think of them.
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  3.  @crustycupcake110  There are obviously people within economics who are far more culpable than others, but only Neoclassical economics could end up with the deluded argument that " assumptions don't matter" as a way of defending the paradigm via the use of logical and empirical fallacies. So yes, the responsibility is collective.
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  4. Me too!
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  5. Good point. My reason for noting that was that I fear we'll turn anti-technological in response to climate breakdown, seeing it as the cause of the crisis rather than overshooting planetary boundaries (with the encouragement of economists), which is the real cause. If we do--and we fail to construct an industrial society that respects planetary boundaries in the future--then the ultimate outcome for life on Earth will be to be extinguished when the Sun goes Red Giant. We've already failed the lesson of caring for our planet--again, at the encouragement of economists as well as of the fossil fuel companies.
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  6. I wish! 😂
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  7. Ha Ha! I can't argue with that, but one thing you can say for Aussie Rules is that its top players look like gymnasts. The top footballers in League and Union look like ... someone you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley. So aesthetically, AR wins.
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  8. Do you really think that climate scientists have overlooked these details that are obvious to you  @oliverbergfeld1606  ? There are a smattering of positives, but they are trivial compared to the negative of pushing the biosphere well out of the comfort range in which we evolved. Scariest here in the long term is ocean acidification, but there are many others.
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  9. Honestly, if you think climate scientists are fudging their results for the sake of funding, then you have no idea of how miniscule funding is  @oliverbergfeld1606 . It's also a crap-shoot where less than 1 in ten gets funding, and it has bugger all to do with whether you say "what would you like 1+1 to equal sir?" in your funding application. And a referendum can't repeal the Laws of Thermodynamics. I'm sorry, I appreciate that you are genuine, but you are dabbling in areas where people with expertise know far more than you do.
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  10. Jospeh Schumpeter. The book I recommend is The Theory of Economic Development.
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  11. That's pretty reasonable @abbsgmz  . Over time we've gone from leveraging our own energy, to harnessing the energy of intelligent animals, to slavery (leverage the slave's energy), to mechanised labour, and now to largely machines using fossil fuel energy mainly, tended by humans. You can view the whole of human history through the lens of capturing and transforming as much energy as possible.
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  12. I'd down a wine rather than a beer, but if ever I'm in your town, I'll take you up on that.
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