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Robots are not a silver bullet for recycling. If anything, they impose stricter requirements on what you are required to do before recycling and what you can re
by jltsiren 2y ago
Robots are not a silver bullet for recycling. If anything, they impose stricter requirements on what you are required to do before recycling and what you can recycle. For example, you have to rinse food residues even more thoroughly to prevent them from contaminating paper and cardboard. And smaller pieces of recyclable materials often cannot be recycled, because it's not efficient to run the conveyor belts slowly enough to sort them.
- nis0s 2y agoI think an AI-enabled recycling solution is sorely needed, but you’re right that if there’s a worldwide culture of using less efficient fuel, then anything else one does is useless. Climate change isn’t necessarily due to human activities, but is also partly caused by the natural changes of global climate conditions. So my concern isn’t climate change or environmentalism (the only just action for a human is to kill themselves if they don’t want to harm the environment; note that I am not saying someone should do this, but taking anti-harm thinking to it’s logical conclusion, which is the insane bit). My concern is energy efficiency. Nuclear has always been efficient and powerful, and we should have already found solutions for its issues. All the bad energy policies we continue to implement exist because technological disruption against inefficient industries is not allowed.