I’m 100% in agreement with this person, because building any complex system comes down to defining the tasks, and it has nothing to do with code. I say this as an engineer experienced in creating mechanical, electronic, and software systems. A programmer is just a middleman—just like many professions in filmmaking are merely intermediaries between the author and the audience. AI will completely remove the middlemen.
Congrats @guardian, this is easily one of the most dishonest articles I've read in a long time, just pure ideological propaganda.
In short the article's main thesis is that climate change is a "democracy" vs "autocracies" issue whereby virtuous "democracies" are struggling valiantly against climate change while evil "autocracies" are the primary obstacle to progress. And the central question being: how can we, the good guys, force these bad "autocracies" to behave responsibly on climate?
As the article puts it, "democracies" apparently have attributes like popular pressure and transparency that mean only they can address important global issues, whereas bad awful "autocracies" are controlled by fossil fuel interests and have no internal pressure to change course.
Only problem with this thesis? It's completely false. In fact reality is pretty much the opposite: the only major country with an open climate change denier leading it is non other than the US - the supposed beacon of democracy that just withdrew from the Paris Agreement again and is now the world's top exporter of fossil fuels.
And by far the biggest driver of the global energy transition, building an extraordinary 74% of the world's clean solar and wind projects (https://t.co/ioVk2yigjp), is none other than China.
And this trend is accelerating: more and more the US is becoming the world's principal roadblock to global decarbonization efforts, with the Trump administration now using tariffs as a weapon to pressure countries to maintain fossil fuel dependence, specifically US fossil fuels.
Even the New York Times recently had to admit this was the case in a lengthy investigation documenting how China leads the energy transition while America actively undermines it (https://t.co/9HVVT7N9Bk). As they document, China is racing toward a renewable future while Trump's America is trying to keep the world "hooked on fossil fuels" through economic coercion and dismantling of climate policies.
Long story short, presenting things as if it was "autocracies keeping us hooked on fossil fuels" as The Guardian is doing here is textbook disinformation.
Which incidentally also destroys the article's theories around "democracies" supposedly having better information flows and accountability - hard to claim those virtues when peddling basic propaganda.
Link to the article: https://t.co/saDyrP1ryL
Makes sense. Strong correlation. Lot of monks out there who leveraged their sobriety to build two copycat businesses to get rich. Crick, Lilly, Sagan, Mullis, Feynman, Freud, Jobs, Edison could have all invented telegram if they had just been sober
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@badlogicgames I agree - As a non-developer/designer you currently still need to stretch to be able to “read code”. At the same time as a Designer I’ve run into similar category issues he describes but have been able to solve them with “systems design”.
@badlogicgames I agree with your take. But I would posit the blog post inadvertently reveals how this developer struggles hard at being a designer and wrongly blames the tool. Developers think of Cursor et all as a coding tool when really they should think of it as a design tool.
This is actually one of the worst books in existence.
It teaches you just enough about system dynamics to have a vague high level understanding about how they work, basically putting you right at the peak of Dunning Kruger Mount Stupid. And then spends the last like third of the book telling you how smart you are now and to go be an activist and fuck with complex systems.
Probably like 90% of all the retarded policy and cultural changes that midwit academics implement that end up destroying society stem from system dynamics theory retards like Meadows.
@mbauwens i like this. any new utopia that’s is articulated as an anti-thesis is not motivating enough. anti-capitalism, degrowth etc. only a utopia designed from the ground up without reference to “what is” is truly free, authentic and inspiring. a planetary utopia acknowledging nature…
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It isn’t about decentralisation vs centralisation. The only thing that is important is that users can just up and leave any chain without incurring any losses.
Again, I’m not sure this is a bad thing.
My take is that the community thinks the benefits of large, centralized builders outweigh the negatives.
And as long as we have decentralized, commoditized validators, that is an acceptable compromise.
@mbauwens leftist and rightist are both for maintaining/defending order and they’re both for tearing down orders. the identity doesn’t drive the behaviour. the position does. if i am at the top i want to stay there. wether i am left or right. continued inequality amplifies authoritarianism