The most important difference between Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake is that PoW brings revenue to GPU and ASIC manufacturers, which affects R&D timelines for computing hardware, which affects AGI timelines. And yet people obsess over a bunch of trivial other properties.
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I agree with the sentiment, but what if the CO2 emissions push the climate past a tipping point, better to be risk adverse in this situation?
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I might be suffering from Poe's law, but here goes: "A sufficiently large nuclear war could completely destroy human civilization. If the bombs struck major manufacturing centres, they could also cause thousands of people to be put out of work."
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Reductio ad absurdum.
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Maybe, but in 20 years we will care how much electricity "got wasted". World electricity consumption rate of 0.13% (and growing) is not a trivial detail.
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