Well, you could start by asking him to dial back the ego chest puffing.
Next, you could ask him to share the evidence that any amount of activism and expert analysis will ever liberate us from the nuclear threat.
You might ask him to comment on the claim (mine) that nothing meaningful is likely to happen on nuclear weapons until after the next detonation, because human beings are not very good at learning in the abstract.
You could ask him what role nuclear weapons activists should be preparing to play after the next detonation, when conscious raising is no longer necessary.
You could ask him to reflect on the source of nuclear weapons and all other technological threats, an ever accelerating knowledge explosion.
You could ask him to help us identify thinkers who understand and can articulate from a position of cultural authority that focusing on particular technological threats one by one by one is a loser’s game, because the knowledge explosion will generate new threats faster than we can address the existing threats. Evidence: Seventy years later, no meaningful progress on nuclear weapons.
You could ask him whether, in his opinion, does it make sense to give humanity ever more, ever larger powers, at an ever accelerating rate, given that, as a culture, we’ve almost totally lost interest in the existential threat presented by 1940′s technology?
Well, you could start by asking him to dial back the ego chest puffing.
Next, you could ask him to share the evidence that any amount of activism and expert analysis will ever liberate us from the nuclear threat.
You might ask him to comment on the claim (mine) that nothing meaningful is likely to happen on nuclear weapons until after the next detonation, because human beings are not very good at learning in the abstract.
You could ask him what role nuclear weapons activists should be preparing to play after the next detonation, when conscious raising is no longer necessary.
You could ask him to reflect on the source of nuclear weapons and all other technological threats, an ever accelerating knowledge explosion.
You could ask him to help us identify thinkers who understand and can articulate from a position of cultural authority that focusing on particular technological threats one by one by one is a loser’s game, because the knowledge explosion will generate new threats faster than we can address the existing threats. Evidence: Seventy years later, no meaningful progress on nuclear weapons.
You could ask him whether, in his opinion, does it make sense to give humanity ever more, ever larger powers, at an ever accelerating rate, given that, as a culture, we’ve almost totally lost interest in the existential threat presented by 1940′s technology?