• @Soyweiser
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    4 months ago

    Roko even said the ‘I think agricultural waste products like straw can be substituted for sawdust so maybe you are paid to take it off their hands.[emph mine]’ line. which is always a good sign when somebody is trying to the economically feasible math.

    • @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      164 months ago

      yeah let’s just divert entire global straw output so that Roko can build his libertarian crypto paradise

      also straw is not a waste, wtf is he thinking

          • @Soyweiser
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            114 months ago

            New form of pykrete made out of manure and ice. Eventually the Icebertarians will get use to the smell (an AI company is also working on a CRISPR fix), and with the problems of excessive manure and thus nitrate in places like the Netherlands, you are paid to take it off their hands! Win win!

            • @o7___o7
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              4 months ago

              A Turdburg on a turdberg. Not be a shining city on a hill, but it might have high albedo.

              • @Soyweiser
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                Time to Cronenberg it up. Anybody want a new appartment in Roko the skyscraper? Long live the new flesh! No pets!

                • @o7___o7
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                  64 months ago

                  All hail the new flesh! No pets!

                  I’m ded

                  • @Soyweiser
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                    64 months ago

                    Next time I’m first going to look up the quote (which is apparently 'Long live the new flesh!") before posting, but you have immortalized my error. :)

    • @V0ldek
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      144 months ago

      It’s hard for me to even imagine a more apt description of a privileged silver-spoon moron than thinking straw is waste and people would pay you to get rid of it.

      Human minds are amazing, I can’t even hypothesise what thought processes, if any, led him there

      • @Soyweiser
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        84 months ago

        And even if it was waste, that you are planning to build megastructures with it makes it no longer waste very quickly, and as there was no demand for the product before and now it is in high demand, the price will prob do some very interesting things. A suggestion was made to use sugarcane bagasse which has no other use it seems. But that would then also quickly get a use and increase in price, which would also do things to the price of replacement products, like sawdust, or straw. And I assume that if the price of straw in the world rises a lot due to this megaconstruction a lot of farmers would be unhappy, but yeah fuck the poor countries.

    • flavia
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      144 months ago

      Even if it was waste, the sellers would notice and start charging for it. Libertarians have a fucked up definition of what ‘waste’ also with bitcoin mining.