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Why aren't you working on curing cancer?
by johnfn 2y ago
Why aren't you working on curing cancer?
- spunker540 2y agoThere’s an episode of Seinfeld that opens with some standup where Jerry is joking how scientists are working on seedless watermelon, and why aren’t scientists working on more important things. And I always think the same thing! “… so the comedian is complaining about how scientists spend their time…” It’s a fine joke, but deep down the instinct is very top-down and suggest centrally planned economies, dare I say communism!
- xrisk 2y agoI don’t think what he works on burns a bunch of energy for nothing though.
- gus_massa 2y agoLet's hope he is not the guy that checks the tickets for a roller coaster. They just send people from A to A using an ineficient path that burns a bunch of energy.
- 1986 2y agoNobody is out there saying that we need to bring a bunch of nuclear plants online to power our rollercoasters though.
- gus_massa 2y agoWhat about the Disney park in Florida? This source claims they use 1E9Kwh per year http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2019/ph241/howell2/ http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2019/ph241/howell2/ A random google search claims a nuclear power plant produces 1gw, that is 9E9Kwh, so enought topower 9 of them. How many parks do they have? Can we include Disney+? Can we include other similar parks? Some people think Disney is useful and pay for it. Some people think AI is useful and pay for it.
- johnfn 2y agoI hope he doesn't work at any tech company; I'm pretty sure you could say that about all of them. I also hope he doesn't have a car - that pointlessly burns energy when he could be taking public transit instead.