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Should I reminder you what unlimited growth means and how it ends up in biology? Society/technology is no exception.

• pu_pe 6mo ago
  No need for unlimited growth, just normal sustainable progress like the one that allows you and me to communicate here after centuries of technological progress.
  • PatronBernard 6mo ago
    Ah yes, sustainable progress, like we're doing now?
  • vrganj 6mo ago
    The "normal sustainable progress" has already pushed us to the brink of extinction. AI is rapidly accelerating our resource use, with nothing good to show for it.
    • lxgr 6mo ago
      How exactly are we "on the brink of extinction"? ("We" as in humans; many other species are obviously not as lucky.) We are probably on the brink of very bad consequences for a signification fraction of all humans (up to and including all of them, to some extent), which is a huge problem that needs to be addressed. But what do you gain by incorrectly labeling that as "extinction"? Because you do definitely lose credibility for it, similarly to everybody using hyperbolic language such as "boiling the oceans" etc.
  • pier25 6mo ago
    > No need for unlimited growth Well then at some point you need to stop growing.
  • account42 6mo ago
    The "AI" craze has been very far from normal or sustainable.