Comment Re:I used to think that AI doesn't use much energy (Score 2) 25
We have a lot of virtue signaling with things like electric vehicles.
True that. Driving is fun and cool but you know what else is fun and cool? Watching scenery go by while sitting on a train going 80. If you started from scratch with today's resources there's no way you would build cars to serve the bulk of people, it would just sound insane right on its face. "So, for 8 billion people to get around, we could build a handful of cars for remote areas and move most of them around using rail, which is very clean and efficient, or we could just do it all with cars and buses for a hundred times as much money and none of the efficiency."
You know what the absolute most insane car-like thing is though? BRT. "We could use this space to put in rail, but instead we'll build two more warming-increasing highway lanes and run a bus on them occasionally."