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0 pointsamelius4y ago0 comments

... or people going to the gym.

The problems start, of course, when you take a concept to its logical extreme.

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I'm less concerned with wasting resources (which is highly subjective), than with ecological and systemic harms. I don't care whether a terawatt is "wasted" on pointless SHA256 hashes, or calculating triangles for Yet Another Marvel Movie, so long as the externality is being paid for [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax

yellowapple4y ago

Exactly. And by forcing the internalization of that externality, that forces the market to consider things which lack that externality.

The trick is to enforce it in such a way that it can't be easily dodged via e.g. offshoring.

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