Comment by GardenLetter27
6 days ago
What environmental cost? The uranium is going to decay on its own anyway, we might as well use that energy for useful things.
Maybe LLMs will help lead to a breakthrough in nuclear fusion or battery research.
Degrowth is the philosophy of poverty, and a poverty of philosophy.
Degrowth and "Maybe this uses too much electricity" are not the same thing, particularly when a nontrivial portion of US generation is fossil-fuel based.
As for the breakthroughs, maybe they will, maybe they won't; it's not much of an argument.
This mindset is cancerous
endless growth is the philosophy of an economic system that does not regard the long-term health of the planet and its flora and fauna. what's your point?
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