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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 months ago

Roko puts self on ice floe, saving us the trouble

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Roko puts self on ice floe, saving us the trouble

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 months ago
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Ice: The Penultimate Frontier — LessWrong
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I argue here that preventing a large iceberg from melting is absurdly cheap per unit area compared to just about any other way of making new land, an…
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    Yes, good plan, the ozone layer hole craves more skin cancer sacrifices. (And don’t forget that hole is prob going to grow due to mega genius musk putting aluminum sats in the sky that burn up in high altitude)

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      He does mention that you’ll need a military to defend your borders, though of course he’s more concerned about opportunistic “legacy governments” taking his iceborne super country away from him rather than pirates showing up to fish anything valuable out of the sea as it all predictably and rapidly falls apart.

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        Yeah this new ‘military’ setup will also quicly lead to them being seen as pirates by ‘legacy governments’ (who tend to love armed groups showing up, esp near any shipping lanes (if he wants to live anywhere away from the damaged ozone layer (the south of the south pacific seems somewhat empty at least). And the various groups of people in this new libertarian utopia (I’m going to assume it is libertarian) will surely not start preying on each other, or those nice ‘legacy’ shipping going round. At least 4 people will call themselves Ragnar Danneskjöld.

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          but will USN wipe out half of their fleet in a single shift if they bother commercial shipping enough? (operations room)

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            I meant more like treating the icelibertarians like the Houthis and tossing a few missiles into the iceskyscrapers than that kind of what I assume is USA military fanwank video.

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              Who needs missiles when a few parabolic mirrors will do the job?

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                A million red-hot tungsten balls.

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              Houthis have been bombed with every weapon at saudi air force disposal for almost decade by now

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                Yes, and they are still around, same with the Taliban, but for some reason I doubt the Icebertarians will be that anti-fragile. As soon as the first Icebertarian becomes homeless and sets up a tent they will bail. “I’m fine with them doing drugs in their homes, but now they are doing drugs and not even coding javascript! I cant bear it!”

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              Nah, that would only happen if they touched our boats.

              Or if we thought they touched our boats.

              Or if something wholly unrelated happened to one of our boats nearby and it was politically convenient to say they had touched our boats even if they didn’t actually have much reason to at the time.

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      Yes, good plan, the ozone layer hole craves more skin cancer sacrifices.

      Sun can’t get you if you never go outside taps noggin

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        Ha, do you think The Hole didn’t think of that? It consumes!

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