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by carapace 1311 days ago
> What do you think is the biggest problem with solar energy?

Stupid people.

(Also the biggest problem with everything else. It's almost, but not quite, the only problem.)

> How can this problem be solved with our existing knowledge and resources?

Well we can't throw all the stupid people into a volcano. Let's get that out of the way right off.

Instead, we distract and hypnotize them with the Farnsworth device (Philo, not Hubert). We miniaturize it and make it portable. Then we can plug them into virtual Skinner Boxes and hopefully modify their behavior to make them less destructive.

We have to maintain tight operational security. If they ever find out what we're doing to them they will attempt to destroy us, or, failing that, to destroy themselves to spite us (that's how goddamned stupid they are!)

(However, it turns out you can talk about the plan in public with complete candor as long as you pretend you're joking. The only risk is that some of the stupid people will get confused. But since they are confused anyway it's usually moot.)

It's unpleasant to treat the bulk of humanity as ignorant and insane children who shit in camp, but the evidence is undeniable, the real question is how do we manage the stupid people?

In the Tao Te Ching (book of wisdom, thousands of years old) it says:

    With the best kind of leader
    When the work is finished
    The people all say
    "We did it ourselves."
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"Claiming to be wise, they became fools" - Proverbs 1:22 (book of wisdom, also thousands of years old)
(It's Romans, not Proverbs)

> 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,[a] in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

I afraid I don't get what you're saying?

I mean, idolatry is wrong, and we should know and love God, of course.

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> book of wisdom, also thousands of years old

It's not a contest.

Love that quote. it’s from pauls letter to the Romans, not Proverbs