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Comment by bit-anarchist

14 hours ago

How is it maximizing uselessness? Anymore than anything else, at least?

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Zetaphor  6 hours ago

It does have an outsized environmental impact compared to other technologies people would call useless. The only thing that really tops it in terms of ire and pollution is AI, but that has far more realized applications

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