Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on This Failing Earth - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 May 2009 04:09PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 May 2009 03:06:16PM 3 points [-]

Dude, climate change doesn't even register on my radar except for the effects that it has on discourse, such as people sadly assuming that any talk of "global coordination" is about climate change. If all humanity had to worry about was CO2 in the atmosphere...

Comment author: Vladimir_Golovin 25 May 2009 03:13:34PM *  0 points [-]

Of course I didn't mean that you're concerned about climate -- I just wanted to clarify for non-native English speakers that the word "porn" can be used in a non-sexual context (it seems that I have done it in a misleading way), and the "climate porn" is the most frequent example of such usage, as far as I can tell.

Comment author: steven0461 25 May 2009 03:16:29PM 2 points [-]

I still don't get Cannibal's comment. Is all pessimism porn?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 25 May 2009 03:21:28PM 0 points [-]

Or, for that matter, is all negativity pessimism?