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Why is a luddite on hacker news?
by mdhen 3y ago
Why is a luddite on hacker news?
- raffraffraff 3y agoDo you think that some day humans are gonna live on Earth II? Or on the moon? Are you a child from the 1950s? "Earth I" has a climate crisis that should be our top concern. I'm all for pushing boundaries that matter, if the cost isn't stupidly high. But this is the work of a billionaire narcissist that came up the the cybertruck. The fucking cybertruck. What's the upside of this delusional enterprise? We get better at sending rockets a pathetically short distance from the planet. Great. Space is extremely vast and mostly empty and it takes an incredible amount of finite energy and creates an incredible amount of co² emissions to do this. I'm not a Luddite, I just think that this is extremely wasteful and harmful, and in the grand scene of things, pointless. A pointless pissing contest, and an ego vehicle for Musk. I suppose I'm also a Luddite because I don't babble about crypto.