Terraforming Mars team defends AI use as Kickstarter hits $1.3 million (www.polygon.com)

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If you were right about markets only using energy when it made sense, we wouldn't have this problem:

A graph showing runaway energy use, rapidly increasing since the 19th century, mostly fossils

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

World population and our standard of living have improved drastically over those years too, we aren't burning that additional energy for nothing.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, the fossil economy has enabled society as a whole to create temporary wealth; the past has borrowed from the present. It's going to be a rough comedown.

We haven't been, and still aren't, commensurately accounting for our environmental externalities.

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