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So we are literally killing ourselves to get rich. If a powerful alien race stumbled on the human race they would be compelled to destroy us to save the univers
by vertnerd 5y ago
So we are literally killing ourselves to get rich. If a powerful alien race stumbled on the human race they would be compelled to destroy us to save the universe.
- elliotpage 5y agoWe are now the alien species in a forgettiable early season episode of Star Trek TNG.
- floatingatoll 5y ago“We mine things to make cash flow”?
- manuelabeledo 5y agoThat reminds me of this comic strip: https://m.imgur.com/gallery/KvypGc1 https://m.imgur.com/gallery/KvypGc1
- davebailey 5y agoActually, no, cryptocurrencies offer a way to monetize inexpensive energy production in places with energy surpluses that can't easily move energy to places that need it.
- helloworld11 5y agoWe have been killing ourselves (and each other) to get rich for millenia. It's nothing new. But, we've also been doing many productive things for the sake of getting rich and accumulating useful capital, and these vastly outnumber the destructive things we do, which is why we're still here and by all measurements, better off and more peaceful than we ever have been previously as a species. That's one thing. The second thing is that there's no certainty that bitcoin mining is actually causing us to kill ourselves or that it causes meaningful levels of harm. Lots of panicky hand waving around the subject, but little concrete evidence of the hysterical thing you stated. Furthermore, energy consumption per se is not inherently bad, even for very dubious uses. It's how you procure your energy that defines harm, not that you use lots of it. If for example, we were seeing people mine bitcoin with say, solar power, or mini nuclear fusion reactors, it wouldn't matter that they choose to use energy they paid for on something some perceive as wasteful.