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r-w on Sept 9, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable e...

I don’t think that model takes ignorance into account. You would be unhappy if you knew you were doing a disservice to future generations, but you might accidentally do something stupid that screws things up for generations to come.

clock_tower on Sept 9, 2016 [–]

That sounds intuitively plausible; Aristotle's systems in general tended to be bad about modeling human ignorance.

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