Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassment and Abuse

Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by goatlover on Friday February 03, 2023 @05:55PM (#34648987)

None of those things would make Earth less hospitable than Mars. A desert colony would still be better off than trying to survive on Mars, particularly once Earth's resources are cutoff. Mars is far more hostile than anything likely to happen to Earth over the next hundred million years.

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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by travisjungroth on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:48PM (#34650875)

It's not about hospitable. It's about survivable. There are large enough meteor strikes where you'd be better off on a self-sustaining Mars colony than anywhere on Earth.

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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by danaris on Saturday February 04, 2023 @09:47AM (#34654868)

Unless you're personally in the strike zone, that's not true.

And one should also bear in mind that Mars is at no less risk of meteor impacts than Earth.

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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by travisjungroth on Saturday February 04, 2023 @04:36PM (#34658594)

It’s not about Mars being lower risk but independent risk. Someone could decide to keep copies of important documents in their vacation home not because it’s less likely to have a fire, but because it’s less likely for both houses to have a fire.

I used the wrong word when I said meteor. They’re too small. A comet or asteroid of 100km diameter would raise the temperature of the surface of the Earth by hundreds of degrees and then there’d be decades of darkness. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001632872...

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