On: Trump 'poised to quit Paris climate deal'

[radiorental]

For anyone that has 5 minutes, this BBC article is chilling...

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170418-how-western-civilis...

The salient point being..

'Western civilisation is not a lost cause, however. Using reason and science to guide decisions, paired with extraordinary leadership and exceptional goodwill, human society can progress to higher and higher levels of well-being and development'

We seem to be at a point in time where all of those points are lacking in US policy & leadership.

[brango → radiorental]

If there's one thing the last year has shown us it's how irrational we are. Perhaps it's time to let HAL do what's best for us from now on...

[qbrass → brango]

Getting humans to hand over the reigns and think it was their idea was HAL's plan all along.