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I'm less concerned with wasting resources (which is highly subjective), than with ecological and systemic harms. I don't care whether a terawatt is "wasted" on
by lukifer 5y ago
I'm less concerned with wasting resources (which is highly subjective), than with ecological and systemic harms. I don't care whether a terawatt is "wasted" on pointless SHA256 hashes, or calculating triangles for Yet Another Marvel Movie, so long as the externality is being paid for [0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
- yellowapple 5y agoExactly. And by forcing the internalization of that externality, that forces the market to consider things which lack that externality. The trick is to enforce it in such a way that it can't be easily dodged via e.g. offshoring.