{"id":967,"date":"2009-02-13T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T04:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.synapse9.com\/signals\/?p=967"},"modified":"2009-02-13T00:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T04:00:47","slug":"in-the-spirit-of-reason-a-coded-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/in-the-spirit-of-reason-a-coded-message\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spirit of Reason, A coded message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CCG post 2\/11\/2009 &#8211; responding to Malcolm and RML<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Malcolm &#8211; \u201cHow can we express the climate risk in way the public can understand?\u201d<br \/>\nRML &#8211; That is probably the entire point right now. An infinite supply af \u201cfacts,\u201d expecting people\u2019s reasoning ability to take over,\u00a0doesn\u2019t seem to\u00a0work.<br \/>\n\u2014<\/p>\n<p>In that spirit, we might show our own ability to reason with simple arithmetic.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you consider a growth system as always starting with a non-renewable seed resource, that is finite, then as the system grows what can you say about the rate of % changes in the balance of the seed resources available?<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">(meht gnissorc erofeb sdlohserht ees ot elba eb ot doog eb ti dluow .e.i)<\/h3>\n<p>Assuming you get the first part of that right, it\u2019s not so hard, how valuable would it then be to have a way to tell?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Phil Henshaw<br \/>\nNY NY\u00a0 www.synapse9.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCG post 2\/11\/2009 &#8211; responding to Malcolm and RML Malcolm &#8211; \u201cHow can we express the climate risk in way the public can understand?\u201d RML &#8211; That is probably the entire point right now. An infinite supply af \u201cfacts,\u201d expecting people\u2019s reasoning ability to take over,\u00a0doesn\u2019t seem to\u00a0work. \u2014 In that spirit, we might show &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/in-the-spirit-of-reason-a-coded-message\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In the Spirit of Reason, A coded message<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-econn","category-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}