Please don’t insert gratuitous politics into LessWrong posts.
Basic science isn’t political here. Things like “Humans cause global warming; There is no God; Humans evolved from apes” are politicized some places but here they are just premises. There is no need to drag in political baggage by making “This Is Politics!” declarations in cases like this.
Do you see how the claim that “humans cause global warming” differs from the claim quoted in the grandparent comment?
It takes the form of a premise in a sentence that goes on to use it as an illustration of another known problem that isn’t realistically going to be solved any time soon. I don’t think I accept your implication here and in my judgement you introduced politics, not the opening post and so it is your comment that I would wish to see discouraged.
Basic science isn’t political here. Things like “Humans cause global warming; There is no God; Humans evolved from apes” are politicized some places but here they are just premises. There is no need to drag in political baggage by making “This Is Politics!” declarations in cases like this.
Do you see how the claim that “humans cause global warming” differs from the claim quoted in the grandparent comment?
It takes the form of a premise in a sentence that goes on to use it as an illustration of another known problem that isn’t realistically going to be solved any time soon. I don’t think I accept your implication here and in my judgement you introduced politics, not the opening post and so it is your comment that I would wish to see discouraged.