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I followed and was very interested until: > But the argument is weak. A philosophical zombie would claim to know what subjective experience is; otherwise, it would be empirically d…

Finally someone that has it right -_-'

But they didn’t 30 years ago and we were all doing well. Data centers are not required for them.

My point was more that we would collectively be much worse off without household consumption than without data centers (so no Netflix, no smartly managed grid etc.)

An order of magnitude more would be comparable to electricity consumption by households. Its utility feels to me at least an order of magnitude higher than the one of data centers,…

Hahaha best comment so far <3

Use Django :-)

Thank you! Was starting to think I got all my codebase wrong and misunderstood what is « pythonic » So doing this in python is ok (fastest way to check if a key is in a dict is cat…

C'est de l'Adobe.

At GreenGo, we are trying to re-enchant local tourism for Europeans so that they are less inclined to take the plane => changing behaviours, not improving technology. We want to do…

YES.

Preach.

> You described no other imminent problem. Not sure why what I described previously is relevant if this assertion is true in itself, however let's double-check this in what I wrote…

1) Energy is the limiting factor IF we decide to do different things than we have done so far. So far what we have done with energy is mainly deplete and destroy things. In other w…

Agreed about the fact that collective action will be the solution. But about resources it is true that we can harvest them in a less destructive manner, will that be enough? Or do …

Everyone tells themselves stories. Like « what’s cool in life is to try and be a billionaire so I can get a private jet and everybody treat me like a king », or, at the level of a …

Preach

Our ability to transform matter at always bigger scales and rates, which is proportional to the energy we master, is what has driven the current environmental crisis (were not all …

https://www.amazon.fr/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp... Using the past to try and predict the future, in particular unusual and impactful events is a reliable way to consta…

Absolutely agree, I didn’t want people to fixate on this fact so I preferred focusing on the positive and not mention it, but technology alone without deciding collectively how to …

Amazing. I wish there were more discussions about this most important topic on HN, and more generally on describing how we are depleting earth’s resources and dispersing them every…

I don't feel that you have tried to answer my questions, but let's keep pretending this is a conversation and I will react to your points. > This means that the imminent concern in…

Exactly we agree: the problem is doing the right choice!

Absolutely agree with tsimionescu

This is super interesting, let's continue the conversation: population increase is a big factor driving energy consumption (and garbage emissions) indeed. Let's assume we have GLOB…