still testing this out/trying to figure out how to phrase it: maybe we should just focus on the electricity and water use of computation instead of extrapolating to carbon because 1) companies flimflam with offsets/power purchase agreements and 2) a future of net zero carbon electricity sources will necessarily be constrained
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it has been pretty easy to convince people that proof of work crypto's resource use is A Problem because it concentrates wealth toward a legible discrete group of people w/o broader benefit but I think tech that 1) mostly is killing creative jobs and 2) at best diffuses profits to CEOs and shareholders is not really that different!
your company can have midjourney or email but it can't have both