sujato.bsky.social
Buddhist mendicant.
Pali translations at https://suttacentral.net.
I talk suttas at https://discourse.suttacentral.net.
Events: The Monastery at the End of the World https://lokanta.github.io/.
Writings: https://sujato.me/
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I'm nerdy enough to want to fact check this, and it seems half is about 2000, CMIP6 was about 2028.
More interesting, search doesn't reveal much at all about fuel use, every link goes to emissions instead. Hmm.
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There's always been *good things* and *bad things*. You can't point to a bunch of *good things* as a change for the better, because some past *good things* have failed, and *bad things* have started as well.
Global CO2 is the sum of the good and the bad, and it's rising faster than ever.
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There's an old guy in our neighborhood who goes around collecting cans and bottles for the refund. Maybe he's homeless or just out of work. Anyway, double the refund and we're also helping out folks like him.
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Ok no worries, give me a few days, I'm still getting my feet on the ground.
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Noice.
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Hard agree. It's only become possible to imagine AI is or might become sentient because we've degraded our understanding of sentience by forcing our minds into quantizable paradigms. And this goes back to the roots of the field, as far as Turing.
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Just sujato I think. Could we DM here?
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Technically, but I pop in rarely. Our community still uses it tho.
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cancel starship.
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Hey thanks, been using signal w/ my local community for a few years now, grateful for a tech product we can actually trust.
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Get bent Nazi.
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Depends on your point of view. The lesson the Dems taught them was that you can do the most heinous, egregiously stupid and harmful things imaginable, and you'll be bailed out and absolved. Seems they learned just fine.
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I'm not Christian, and I'm also allowed to weigh in on this: it's historical and theological nonsense. But what is true is that the Bible authorizes genocide with disturbing frequency.
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The IPCC says "global average … for a 30-year period … relative to 1850–1900". This definition is maintained for consistency.
The problem is, with temperatures rising so quickly, it's not clear to me that talking about average temperatures smoothed over three decades is very meaningful.
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In about 2010 I lobbied for climate action with Australia's religions at Federal Parliament. The prevailing target was 2 degrees, but we decided to advocate for 1.5, though we knew it would be dismissed as unrealistic.
Surely we're past pretending that 1.5 was ever going to happen.
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Population changes for all sorts of reasons, and moral opinions about it achieves nothing but harm. Our moral imperative is to help those who are here, not to fantasize about a world where we get to control wombs.
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Women are humans, not life support systems for a uterus.
Theorizing about women having babies and global population or whatever is insulting. Women can decide for themselves, thanks.
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Buddhism is not natalist. It has no theory that it is good or bad for women to have kids. If someone has kids, great, Mums are awesome and should be respected. If not, also great, women can do anything: fly to the moon, build a house, become a nun!
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This ends in ghoulishness like the violation of Adriana Smith’s body. Ultimately the purpose is not abortion or choice, it's to send a message to all women:
“Your body is ours to do with what we wish, no matter how depraved and sick. We can justify it because our *beliefs* supersede your *life*.”
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Natalist theory is inherently misogynistic. According to the machinations of one's value system, women *should* do this or that.
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Some secularists lean antinatal, in the belief that earth would be better off without us, or at least with a much reduced human population.
Some people choose to not have kids for environmental reasons, but antinatalism raises this choice to a universal moral imperative.
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Theistic religions tend pronatalist. They believe in a creator god who imbues life itself with goodness. More practically, they often seek to expand and extinguish rival theisms by demographic overwhelm, a strategy that betrays their own lack of confidence in persuasion or inspiration.
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Ha ha yes, many such cases!
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hard same.
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It's really hard to talk about it without sounding like a wacko.
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And weird that it is assumed: they're supposed to be an expert. I always thought what made an expert was they do the work to find out answers.
At least there's some good comes out of it—I get a new list of people and things I can safely ignore. That's the true time-saving genius of AI!
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I'm old enough to remember when CMIP6 was considered to run unrealistically hot.
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In Oz, too, there were 100,000s on the streets against war in Iraq, Howard's govt ignored them and invaded based on lies.
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The “Nationals” are Australia's rural party. They're reeling from flood after flood, fire after fire, drought after drought, and yet.
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Wow. Just brainstorming here, but perhaps to counter this approach one might focus on the fact that AI just regurgitates the past, it is your parents' ideas recycled. Nothing less cool than ten years ago.
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In the Vedic system, the gods animate the world: making the sun rise and set, lighting the fire, growing the plants, making the rain fall, etc. In Buddhism, these roles are subdued somewhat, but we still find them here and there.
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here's the quote:
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Couldn't agree more. Humanity isn't measurable, and if the 20th century has taught us anything, it's that it is folly to try.
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Interesting article, thanks.
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Same.
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Hey thanks, that was a super interesting summary for someone who really knows nothing about this.
Glad to see the Star Wars stuff has still got it. I saw a quote on here the other day about the rise of fascism, I thought wow, that's good, turns out it was a speech from Andor!
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Reminds me of grade 5 choir, we did Ode to Joy, Blowin' in the Wind, and Waltzing Matilda. Pretty solid choices!
I remember the headmaster got all emotional talking about how great the Ode to Joy was, it was a bit weird at the time, but yeah, I get it now!
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Not to boast—ok maybe a little—but we just printed a set of books in Sri Lanka that had all of the above, plus local *hand-woven bespoke cloth* on the cover. It feels so nice to pick up and hold!
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It's past time for environmentalists to reject the CoP process, all we do is lend it false credibility.