level 3 is “okay, we just won’t be idiots about doing superficially useful looking things to the environment”
But a key point is that 3 is, fundamentally, a skill-issue.
And maybe, given our human-capability levels, it’s functionally a skill-issue for everyone.
But it’s a pretty common pattern for someone to try to do [something] (using a basically hopeless methodology, often), fail, and then declare that [something] is beyond the ken of man, and we must be humble in the face of our ultimate ignorance and impotence.
See for instance the way many (in my opinion, midwit) people declare that there is irreducible mystery, or that no one worldview and accommodate all of the problems of society.
But a key point is that 3 is, fundamentally, a skill-issue.
And maybe, given our human-capability levels, it’s functionally a skill-issue for everyone.
But it’s a pretty common pattern for someone to try to do [something] (using a basically hopeless methodology, often), fail, and then declare that [something] is beyond the ken of man, and we must be humble in the face of our ultimate ignorance and impotence.
See for instance the way many (in my opinion, midwit) people declare that there is irreducible mystery, or that no one worldview and accommodate all of the problems of society.