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Kbsm··on The Arctic Is Warming Four Times Faster Than the Rest of the World
Honest answer - I don't care at all. Not because I don't believe something is happening, but because I don't buy into the presumption that we need to preserve Life as it is right now.

I believe Life will persevere, sometimes getting better, sometimes getting worse, for millennia in the future.

A comment in a different thread on hacker news today quoted this from a book: > "Life is composed of reality configurations so constituted. To abandon [my wife] would be to say, I can't endure reality as such. I have to have uniquely special easier conditions."

I don't believe I have to fight or feel guilty that some people in the near future will not get a uniquely special easier life.

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As another example, there is this community on the internet called LessWrong, whose members believe that the single biggest problem facing humanity right now is the impending arrival of AGI (artificial general intelligence). Many of them truly believe this problem is so urgent and important that you shouldn't be able to think about anything else. But I would guess (if you don't happen to be one of them) you don't really think or care about that. Maybe thinking about this analogy will help you find an answer to your question.

Kbsm··on GHC 9.0, supporting linear types
Learn more about the new linear types extension in GHC here: https://tek.brick.do/64693fb8-39b4-40a5-8762-768009eeed91