felixmeziere

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by felixmeziere 5mo ago
I followed and was very interested until: > But the argument is weak. A philosophical zombie would claim to know what subjective experience is; otherwise, it would be empirically distinguishable from a human. Chalmers’s point is that the
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by felixmeziere 3y ago
Finally someone that has it right -_-'
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by felixmeziere 3y ago
But they didn’t 30 years ago and we were all doing well. Data centers are not required for them.
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by felixmeziere 3y ago
My point was more that we would collectively be much worse off without household consumption than without data centers (so no Netflix, no smartly managed grid etc.)
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by felixmeziere 3y ago
An order of magnitude more would be comparable to electricity consumption by households. Its utility feels to me at least an order of magnitude higher than the one of data centers, as sheltering, cleanliness and everyday appliances are much
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by felixmeziere 3y ago
Hahaha best comment so far <3
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
Use Django :-)
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
Thank you! Was starting to think I got all my codebase wrong and misunderstood what is « pythonic » So doing this in python is ok (fastest way to check if a key is in a dict is catching KeyError for example, if I remember correctly)
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
C'est de l'Adobe.
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
At GreenGo, we are trying to re-enchant local tourism for Europeans so that they are less inclined to take the plane => changing behaviours, not improving technology. We want to do that by making local destinations more desirable and mak
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
YES.
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
Preach.
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
> You described no other imminent problem. Not sure why what I described previously is relevant if this assertion is true in itself, however let's double-check this in what I wrote above: "whether its solid and liquid garbage (
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
1) Energy is the limiting factor IF we decide to do different things than we have done so far. So far what we have done with energy is mainly deplete and destroy things. In other words: we are very clumsy in the way we control matter, we ca
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
Agreed about the fact that collective action will be the solution. But about resources it is true that we can harvest them in a less destructive manner, will that be enough? Or do we also need to harvest less of them? The gap we need to bri
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
Everyone tells themselves stories. Like « what’s cool in life is to try and be a billionaire so I can get a private jet and everybody treat me like a king », or, at the level of a country « we should build entire new cities and airports and
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
Preach
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
Our ability to transform matter at always bigger scales and rates, which is proportional to the energy we master, is what has driven the current environmental crisis (were not all the imminent existential threats are climate change, althoug
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
https://www.amazon.fr/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp... Using the past to try and predict the future, in particular unusual and impactful events is a reliable way to constantly miss the main events of history.
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
Absolutely agree, I didn’t want people to fixate on this fact so I preferred focusing on the positive and not mention it, but technology alone without deciding collectively how to repurpose it (this is a huge philosophical/cultural cha
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
Amazing. I wish there were more discussions about this most important topic on HN, and more generally on describing how we are depleting earth’s resources and dispersing them everywhere, transforming it into a giant pile of garbage (gaseous
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
I don't feel that you have tried to answer my questions, but let's keep pretending this is a conversation and I will react to your points. > This means that the imminent concern in the capacity of sustainability (exacerbation o
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
Exactly we agree: the problem is doing the right choice!
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
Absolutely agree with tsimionescu
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
This is super interesting, let's continue the conversation: population increase is a big factor driving energy consumption (and garbage emissions) indeed. Let's assume we have GLOBAL STAGNANT POPULATION GROWTH from today on. So we
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
The graphs of energy availability/consumption and emissions of garbage are correlated. This is a historical fact. Life is literally as affordable for people as the amount of energy that is available to them, that's the main factor
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
So far, extra energy has been entirely targeted at increasing consumerism: it's the famous "such and such country is finally getting a sizeable middle class". Translation of "middle class": class of mass consumers.
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
> That rate does not scale negatively with energy prices. It scales positively with population, in the West. I wouldn't uses "prices" here as a framing. If you plot the graphs of worldwide energy usage and worldwide garbag
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
Yes, that would be a good use for it. But: - Designing things to be durable and recyclable in the first place is probably more economical and sustainable (both can be combined though, no problem) - Recycling is not a silver bullet. Extracti
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by felixmeziere 4y ago
When you observe historical data, you see that the graphs of the amount of energy we are able to master are roughly proportional to the graphs of our emissions of garbage (construction, pollution, CO2, consumer goods etc.). I'm not say

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