Re: assuming we don't have a 100x unicorn improvement in battery tech anytime soon ...

On 7/31/2026 12:19 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:16:14 -0400, Wilson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 7/30/2026 1:07 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>> On Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:34:31 -0400, Wilson <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 7/28/2026 5:36 PM, dart200 wrote:
>>>>> On 7/28/26 2:10 PM, Wilson wrote:
>>>>>> On 7/28/2026 3:06 PM, dart200 wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> i still won't trust or support private companies running nuclear
>>>>>>> shipping dud, ur just a negligent retard who willfully ignores how
>>>>>>> that record was produced because ur nothing more than unrepentant
>>>>>>> ideologue
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And you think centralized command and control is a panacea, apparently.
>>>>>
>>>>> that's what produced the record wilson: a strict military hierarchy
>>>>> dealing with life/death decision making, where command comes entirely
>>>>> from within and is strictly audited in performance for actual decades
>>>>> before given major positions of command
>>>>>
>>>>> on what basis do have to show that the private market will be anything
>>>>> of that sort...
>>>>>
>>>>> just more _bear_ assertions, eh?
>>>>
>>>> Ah, so the best possible scenario you can imagine is a world that is
>>>> based on a military structure.
>>>>
>>>> Got it.
>>>
>>> No, the implication is that profit motive does not provide the kind of
>>> minds that society needs.
>>
>> There's this thing called ethics. The free market works best when the
>> participants have a shared and broad ethical system that values (among
>> other things) treating others fairly, the same way most of us want to be
>> treated.
> 
> Cool.  Let me know when the markets get within astronomical units of
> that ideal.

Markets are a function, not a person. Only people can have ethics.