What if that not born child makes the critical breakthrough discovery?

ForHackernews · on April 11, 2018

What critical breakthrough discovery?

We're not going to magically fix climate change.

dingo_bat · on April 11, 2018

We might. How can you be so sure.

usrusr · on April 11, 2018

That hypothetical unborn child might just as well keep some other person from making that one magical discovery. Anyways, the heroic model of progress is flawed.

dingo_bat · on April 11, 2018

> That hypothetical unborn child might just as well keep some other person from making that one magical discovery.

If it can go both ways there's no reason to not have children because of it. There needs to be another reason.

> Anyways, the heroic model of progress is flawed.

I disagree, but it would be too offtopic to discuss here.

ForHackernews · on April 11, 2018

Because it's already too late, and we're not even really trying: https://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13118594/2-degrees-no-more-fos...