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Comment Re: Induced demand is BS (Score 1) 149

"How much more tax are you willing to pay to support that?"

How much more tax do I currently pay for mass transit I never use? $500 car tabs, anyone?

Gemini:

"The Regional Transit Authority (RTA) tax rate on car tabs for residents living within the Sound Transit boundaries in King County is 1.1%. This translates to $110 per year for every $10,000 of your vehicle's calculated value. [...] The Regional Transit Authority (RTA) tax is strictly used to fund the construction, expansion, and daily operations of the Sound Transit mass transit system."

Comment Re:we’re probably gonna bust past 1.8C (Score 0) 200

"the waste heat that's dumped outside has some potential to worsen local urban climate"

Do datacenters use more efficient cooling than residential AC (Copilot says yes)?
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Why don't heat dome doomers mention that the AC they recommend you turn on makes the heat dome that much worse?

Comment Re:we’re probably gonna bust past 1.8C (Score 1) 200

Does it seem hypocritical to treat electricity as beneficial when your creature comforts (not mine, AC gives me headaches) are tickled, yet claim electricity is scarce when datacenters which likely use less than AC anyway (Copilot says AC is 5-7x datacenter usage) are involved? Do you see how one might think your reasoning is motivated, by creature comforts that don't comfort me?

Comment Re: we’re probably gonna bust past 1.8C (Score 1) 200

What if we're not feeble and have learned that it is physically healthier to sleep outdoors despite arbitrary social stigmatization? Why do you force air conditioning on me in hotel rooms for example, where windows don't even open anymore? Is this survival of the feeblest?

Comment Re:Is Scott Aaronson eating humble pie yet? (Score 0) 45

Can you imagine the possibility that by talking about quantum computers we might inspire some young genius to pursue an idea and accelerate the progress? Whereas if we downplay it as you do, it establishes a mood of pessimism that psychologically makes potential researchers give up before even starting?

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