Limitationist

Thus, to a reader who was also a listener, the tone of the article could have conveyed a less encompassing, indeed limitationist, notion of containment than the text itself did.

The word "nativism" first appeared in the 1830s. It described one part of the limitationist strain that ran through America for a century.

Then Federal Minister of Environment Antonin Vavrougek had strongly criticized the entire project while working at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, taking a more limitationist view about the possibilities of generating electricity and a more alarmist view about the effect on drinking water supplies.

Either demand, however, is unreasonable. It in effect invites the limitationists to shut up unless they exhibit detailed knowledge of government (and private) activities that they cannot realistically be expected to have.

Whether there needs to be a complete reassessment or whether the current system could be modified to work more effectively fuels the debate between limitationists and globalist^([sic]), which at heart is based upon realist premises.

Of the 728 pages of substantive text, about two-thirds are devoted to impacts, one third to mitigation and only 32 pages to adaptation. That so little work is done on adaptation is a function of both 'limitationist' and 'adaptationist' biases. The 'limitationists' fear that such work may weaken the social will to undertake greenhouse gas reduction and thus play into the hands of those that argue that any action is premature.

The article made me happy because here was a scientist I greatly admire arguing for a point of view I've been coming to myself. Over the past few months, I've become an A.I. limitationist. That is, I believe that while A.I. will be an amazing tool for, say, tutoring children all around the world, or summarizing meetings, it is no match for human intelligence.