Comment by tintor

2 months ago

How much pollution would this generate?

This is all I can think of and it depresses me how exciting the video is about turning more materials into emissions. I get I have no power over these people building this, but I just wish they didn't make it. I don't want the world to keep building more amazing ways to burn things I or my neighbors will eventually have to breathe in.

But you have to consider that they could use this energy to generate AI videos about renewable energy and environmentalism, which will educate the next generation of kids. So on a long enough timescale, this could actually decrease the overall pollution! It's basically Effective Altruism applied to energy.