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In non-software domains: 0.De-acidification of ocean water and rapid fossil fuels phaseout in all industries, preferably before the marine foodchain collapse a
by countWSS 3y ago
In non-software domains:
0.De-acidification of ocean water and rapid fossil fuels phaseout in all industries, preferably before
the marine foodchain collapse and de-oxygenation of oceans.
1.Methods for clearing microplastic, PFAS and heavy metals(both of which accumulate in microplastic).
2.developing a sustainable plastic/rubber alternatives without fossil fuels.
3.Development of better supercapacitors and decentralized/distributed
electricity storage(as alternative to fossil fuels).
4.Development of non-chemical space launch methods, space factories and asteroid mining.
5.Development of cheap/effective desalinization methods.
6.Development of environmentally friendly re-usable building materials
and replaceable building components/parts.
In software: Open-source decentralized alternatives for proprietary AI APIs/tools would
have biggest long-term impact. Its probably the most important field
in software engineering right now,
having this power locked in proprietary corporate walled gardens
like "Open"AI would also force mainstream AI use to depend on
whims of centralized API providers.
- marginalia_nu 3y ago> Development of cheap/effective desalinization methods. Turns out this is largely impossible due to thermodynamics. The best we'll ever get is something like half the cost of what we're able to do today, which is very far from cheap.