The carbon emission problem with crypto currency and AI is analogous to the oil and gas industry. When you boil it down to first principles, we are extracting resources from the Earth, and destroying our climate, in the hope of some sort of economic gain.
And the economic gain is tenuous at best.
I wrote an opinion on HN about the carbon problem in crypto as well.
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The carbon emission problem with crypto currency and AI is analogous to the oil and gas industry. When you boil it down to first principles, we are extracting resources from the Earth, and destroying our climate, in the hope of some sort of economic gain.
And the economic gain is tenuous at best.
I wrote an opinion on HN about the carbon problem in crypto as well.