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My guess was that some people involved in foreign craft recovery and reverse engineering programs (we know that these exist) want their programs to be exposed to more oversight, because they're currently too closed off to be cost-effective or useful, or because they're being badly mismanaged in some other way.
So they're telling congress, and maybe Grusch, that it's an alien craft recovery and reverse engineering program, because in the current climate that's going to get it done quicker. I think there might be some new legal protection for UAP reports too. It's possible that there is no other legal avenue to get this looked at.
I was considering posting about this, but didn't see the point. What do you want to do, prevent them from getting more oversight?
I was hoping to understand why people who are concerned about the climate ignore greentech/srm.
One effect, is that people who want to raise awareness about the severity of an issue have an incentive to avoid acknowledging solutions to it, because that diminishes its severity. But this is an egregore-level phenomenon, there is no individual negative cognitive disposition that's driving that phenomenon as far as I can tell.
Mostly, in the case of climate, it seems to be driven by a craving for belonging in a political scene.
There's a sense in which negativity bias is just rationality; you focus on the things you can improve, that's where the work is. These things are sometimes called "problems". The thing is, the healthy form of this is aware that the work can actually be done, so, should be very interested in, and aware of technologies of existential safety, and that is where I am and have been for a long time.
I notice it also makes sure that if the participants know anything at all about the research, they know it's supposed to be voluntary, even if they're still forced to sign it, they learn that the law is supposed to be on their side and there is in theory someone they could call for help.
Probably has something to do with the fact that a catastrophe is an event, and safety is an absence of something. It's just inherently harder to point at a thing and say that it caused fewer catastrophes to happen. Show me the non-catastrophes. Bring them to me, put them on my table. You can't do it.
https://magnusvinding.com/2023/06/11/what-credible-ufo-evidence/ Is a good roundup of the reports taken most seriously
I think what's so crushing about it, is that it reminds me that the wrong people are designing things, and that they wont allow them to be fixed, and I can only find solace in thinking that the inefficiency of their designs is also a sign that they can be defeated.
There's something very creepy to me about the part of research consent forms where it says "my participation was entirely voluntary."
"Virtuous"?
The closest I could spot was the thumbs up, but it's not really there.