Bitcoin doesn’t have any real utility besides being a toy or committing crimes. Machine learning has utility, not just in theory but to plenty of people, inclu

Bitcoin doesn’t have any real utility besides being a toy or committing crimes. Machine learning has utility, not just in theory but to plenty of people, including me. It has helped me do my job faster. You can put tax on energy from carbon, fine. There’s no justification for taxing energy intensive things by themselves because you don’t like using energy. Human energy usage is and should be growing exponentially (and not an S curve) besides occasional pauses when efficiencies are found (like LED lighting using something like 90% less energy than incandescent). Fossil fuels are clearly going away anyway, not because of ideals either, solar is just way cheaper now.