On Monday, November 9, 2020 at 8:53:28 PM UTC+1 Kim Jones wrote:
> Is this the John Clark special news service? Does John Clark believe that
> without his announcement nobody would know about this?
>
There's nothing that prevents any list participants from starting more
focussed or exclusive discussion groups, even ones bearing this name, with
rules of participation and entry, standards, moderators etc. I can
understand the impulse to want to separate the list's discussion from the
conventional beat of mainstream news drums.
Far from wanting to impose some utilitarian imperative, yours truly
appreciates the posts and content that in some way, shape, or form; from
ensemble theories to descriptions and reports on the context, which they
seek to describe... Reference a commitment to future world building, that
is at least weakly discernible. It's fun to read which theoretical setups
people prefer to describe the world, with or without ontological
engagements. But what kind of world building we'd find on the other side of
some descriptive-explanatory package - or arguments relating to
demonstrating no connection at all - be such a package theoretical,
ontological, or otherwise; do not seem off-topic entirely.
For example some kind of outlook with bearing on survival and
sustainability such as:
https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2020
Not that I'd endorse such... but to see such issues be completely
disconnected from discussions relating to ensemble theories, would weigh
more favorably towards Wittgenstein's "tempests in philosophical/academic
teapots" argument and carry a cynical aftertaste imho, that seems less
compatible with the drive that nourishes scientific inquiry. Because "why
seek inquiry in scientific terms at all?", right? Therefore outlook, albeit
gently and a sprinkle of breathable air and semi-digestible fibrous
potential. PGC
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