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Terraforming Mars team defends AI use as Kickstarter hits $1.3 million (www.polygon.com)
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[–] Sandra@idiomdrottning.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] lloram239@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sandra@idiomdrottning.org 1 points 1 year 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.