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Comment by notarobot123

7 hours ago

It's intuitive to think of wasted compute capacity as correlating with a waste of material resources. Is this really the case though?

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mathgeek  7 hours ago

Waste is subjective or, at best, hard to define. It's the classic "get rid of all the humans and nothing would be wasted" aphorism.

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