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I agree. A goal of humanity should be to make energy too cheap to meter. Using AI will help us get there. Every minute OP saves using ChatGPT instead of a text

I agree. A goal of humanity should be to make energy too cheap to meter. Using AI will help us get there. Every minute OP saves using ChatGPT instead of a text editor, OP can devote to other things that could incrementally get us there.

chneu 1y ago
This is willfull ignorance disguised as hopeful. OP isn't going to save the world. Them saving a few minutes isn't going to free them up to discover unlimited energy. This is just excess consumption masked as something else. This is just more excuses to justify laziness. "Its worth it cuz one day I'll solve world hunger."
- profsummergig 1y ago
  4 billion OPs saving a minute = 4 billion minutes saved. Add it all up = trillions of hours saved. Ergo, plenty more time to work on facilitating energy too cheap to meter. (You won't understand. It's okay. You lack the imagination and mindset necessary to understand.)
  - chneu 1y ago
    More excuses. This is how people justify that SUV or truck when a subcompact works fine. I agree we should save time in some aspects of our lives. But justifying more excess because we think we might one day cure world hunger is asinine. I have the imagination. I just don't agree with using such shallow excuses to justify destroying the world. Its such a lame argument to make and can be used to justify anything. Your thinking is "race to the bottom". Justify everything until we destroy it all. Also please drop the attitude. Its in violation of HN's rules.
    - profsummergig 1y ago
      I'm not going back to a rotary phone to save electricity. Sorry.
satiated_grue 1y ago
Tragedy of the commons. Much of the cost is not born by the purchaser; the true cost of pollution (including greenhouse gases and global warming) is placed on others who had no input.
navane 1y ago
AGI will invent a time machine which will get us to the past where we didnt burn up the oil yet, infinite oil!
- profsummergig 1y ago
  Not surprising that you didn't understand my point. (You won't understand. It's okay. You lack the imagination and mindset necessary to understand.)

chneu 1y ago

This is willfull ignorance disguised as hopeful. OP isn't going to save the world. Them saving a few minutes isn't going to free them up to discover unlimited energy. This is just excess consumption masked as something else. This is just more excuses to justify laziness. "Its worth it cuz one day I'll solve world hunger."

profsummergig 1y ago
4 billion OPs saving a minute = 4 billion minutes saved. Add it all up = trillions of hours saved. Ergo, plenty more time to work on facilitating energy too cheap to meter. (You won't understand. It's okay. You lack the imagination and mindset necessary to understand.)
- chneu 1y ago
  More excuses. This is how people justify that SUV or truck when a subcompact works fine. I agree we should save time in some aspects of our lives. But justifying more excess because we think we might one day cure world hunger is asinine. I have the imagination. I just don't agree with using such shallow excuses to justify destroying the world. Its such a lame argument to make and can be used to justify anything. Your thinking is "race to the bottom". Justify everything until we destroy it all. Also please drop the attitude. Its in violation of HN's rules.
  - profsummergig 1y ago
    I'm not going back to a rotary phone to save electricity. Sorry.

satiated_grue 1y ago

Tragedy of the commons. Much of the cost is not born by the purchaser; the true cost of pollution (including greenhouse gases and global warming) is placed on others who had no input.

navane 1y ago

AGI will invent a time machine which will get us to the past where we didnt burn up the oil yet, infinite oil!

profsummergig 1y ago
Not surprising that you didn't understand my point. (You won't understand. It's okay. You lack the imagination and mindset necessary to understand.)