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The biggest problem with the NFT scam is the energy requirements to keep it running. We're killing the planet to turn fossil fuels into entries in the block-cha

• rektide 5y ago
  philosophically it's the opposite of everything that interests me in computing. ongoing moore's law, the expansion of computing, getting cheaper faster. more bandwidth, more connectivity. more possibilities, better augmentation, further frontiers, more freedom. free copying, remix, plenty. to turn around & decide we are going to make a zero sum, limited system. that'd we'd artifically reproduce the scarcity of the real world... it goes against everything that dogital technology enables, is better for. there's nothing digital here at all, it's all 100% make believe, a creation of voluntary social ordering to impose heirarchy, to create haves and have nots. computing was already overly mechanizing, a tool too often used for- as Ursala Franklin would say- prescriptive control, instead of it's more noble holistic use. this hard overdrive into tight, constrained, limited & transactional computing- it's dropping a large tungsten cube on the scales of how computing is used, & it's, to me, vulgarly against what computers are good for and good at, & strongly into a forced socialization & societalization that restrains & limits all our better possibilities. do not want.