Yeah, so let's consider the next steps.

When mining rewards go down, transaction costs must go up in order to ensure security.

So why exactly are people going to be spending large amounts of money to transact on this network in order to keep it secure, when there are many other networks they could transact on that are at least as secure but much much cheaper to use.

Coal and oil also requires plate tectonics to bury the biomass. Venus and Mars don't seem to have the tectonics required.

Yes, this has long been my position also.

Earth only has coal and oil due to the historic presence of life that was around for tens of millions of years - coal is from trees that evolved lignan but which fungi had not evolved yet to break down. The trees grew, died, piled up and got buried by geological processes that subjected them to heat and pressure forming coal. Oil was formed from tiny sea creatures that lived and died in shallow oceans for millions of years and got similarly buried by geologic processes.

There's no gaurantee those things would happen on other planets, or at least on the scale required to produce the quantity of energy humanity has been able to tap (and largely squander).

"have to" is doing a lot of work in your comment.

I see a lot of finger pointing in your comment and not much personal responsibility.

> Reducing demand for meat requires changing the mind of virtually every meat eater in the world.

Not really. It just requires it be priced at a level commensurate with the environmental damage it does. People won't like that so it won't happen, but it is a proven method of reducing demand for a product.

BYD cars offer "just" OTA update and don't have any subscription paywalls at all.

"I'm sure we could do plenty to reduce our use of plastics but consider what was used before."

Or rather, consider: plastics are VERY cheap and VERY good at what they do. Alternatives are more expensive and not as good at doing the job.

Imagine if we were to phase out plastic from all product packaging. How would the world work instead?

If enough electrical substations get blown, then power in some places could be out for months or years.

Civilization is only 3 hot meals away from anarchy.

The #1 definition for "artificial" on dictionary.com is actually
made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural):

Actually there is a general overpopulation and consumption crisis, which is manifesting as all of these other crises.

But the root cause is overpopulation and overconsumption. One way or another, humanity will be forced to live within its means and stop borrowing from the future.

"Where am I getting it wrong?"

If the AI is somehow able to write bug-free and secure code at a quality / rate that is superior to a human based on the same input, then there's the advantage.

Also you're simply forgetting these things can run 24/7 and they will require less office fit out and HR expense etc to manage.

One-time payment to software unlock functionality is fine.

It's the subscription model - where they can take stuff away from you if you stop paying for whatever reason, or give the 'first owner' a discount but jack up the prices or restrict availability for a second owner - that is the problem.

Things like self-driving, where there is on-going substantial investment in the software and training etc, is reasonable to be paid by subscription. Heated seats, faster acceleration etc should be 1-time unlocks that apply for the lifetime of the vehicle regardless of owner.

It's not 100% unaffected. He literally says he's doing merges very slowly on his laptop. That means it is shower than it would otherwise be.