Asteroid mining and space industry is a huge reason, and it’s the next logical step for humanity, especially since it means we can put dirty industry where nature and life doesn’t exist.

There are absurd amounts of resources in space, a lot of which are difficult to access or rare on earth. In addition, space can give opportunities for new forms of manufacturing, from being able to control the level of gravity due to weightlessness, to being surrounded by vacuum. Two things which are either very difficult or impossible to recreate on earth.

It’s enough to look at how much stuff is available in a supermarket, or in the average, home, to know we live in an age of abundance. The problem is, is that abundance is not shared, but hoarded.

We have enough food to feed the world, we have enough production for everyone in the world to have a smartphone and internet access and electricity. We can make clothes for everyone, we can home everyone. We have enough healthcare for everyone.

By an objective measure, we have abundance, we have enough. The world is just severely mismanaging our resources and the distribution of them. Because the economy doesn’t work for humans, instead humans work for the economy.

But if the true costs were quantized in the formula and not just externalized maybe it would suddenly make more sense. After all, in the end, society pays for it no matter what.

Then people will argue capitalism incentivizes innovation.

And these are systemic issues

This would make sense… If it was exactly the same everywhere with a similar level of convenience.

But it’s not, America is much much worse than Europe on this, and rich countries in Europe don’t exactly have less convenience than the US. How else would you explain it other than a systemic difference? American brains are not fundamentally different to European ones.

Oh god I can totally see clueless old people doing shit like this by accident

Frankly, if just 0.3% of buyers return an IT product (especially a novel one) because they “don’t get it”, that’s a massive success in my book. Have you seen users?

You mean what Europe already does?

I thought america was the greatest nation on earth

Society rewards people for making bad choices and doing bad things and many still pretend the system “works”

Wasn’t the literal point of “don’t look up” to be about how we’re ignoring the super obvious threat of climate change?

This AI won’t hallucinate because it’s not an LLM

LLMs are not the only form of AI, or machine learning.

The alternative is a cooperation based economy, rather than a competition based one.

You know, like how the very basics of society work. After all, without cooperation society would never exist.

Probably to produce new nodes. You can’t just reuse old equipment.

Sure, but how many “easily changed things” do you need for the camel’s back to break?

I feel like I constantly hear of tiny little things that get worse in windows. Sure, maybe each individually is not a big deal, but it all is just forever added on, constantly creating a slightly worse user experience.

In the end, windows is not follow a very user-friendly/user-centric design.

Maybe it’s energy intensive, but energy can be clean, especially now that renewable energy is starting to become the cheapest form of energy. You could even make up for the variance by only processing when there is an energy surplus.

Yeah, I didn’t agree to shit. I got yanked from the void into all of this.

Except physically speaking, that warmth from the motor is still just from the energy the wind has… energy that would get transformed to heat from friction eventually anyway. It’s just that this way we get useful work for our own purposes in the form of electricity.

Also the advocating for violence rule has always been weird, because it’s rarely against the rules to advocate for war, even if it’s literally violence and also much much worse due to the scale and horror of it.

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