Save The Planet
Save The Planet
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There is this system where we can compare the relative value of an activity and its relative impact on other activities. It's called prices. When you let them work correctly you don't have to guilt people.
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Data Center used LOBBYING.
It's super effective!
Data Center's power bill was reduced by 75%!
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Which is why the "let them work correctly" part. It gets completely botched over and over again
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Please explain what you mean by "letting them [prices?] work correctly".
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For starters, how much it takes for thing A to be done - that's how high a price must be. So no such thing as "Sony (or was it some other company) just casually decided that games on this platform will cost more, because fuck you" or in your case: no such thing as lobbying drops down bill by 75% while also shifting resource providing (like water) to third parties
Next - visibility: whatever I get done for me, even if I do not pay exactly for that, I should still see the price. So no such thing as free requests to LLMs, which we know cost fuck ton of resources
Next - whatever I pay, even in taxes, I decide where that money goes. So no such thing as "income tax NN%, government decides to murder children half the globe (or just a country border) away, and you go work harder to make us more money to do exactly the same thing"
There also must be a heap of other problems I do not see, but I lack education and attention to get those on my own
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This could be true if the damage of carbon emissions and water use were actually priced in. But they are not, the entire society will bear those costs.
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