2/ ALL expansion in our energy budget is reasonable solar is getting better every year, nuclear is far safer and better than existing energy sources we can and should double the amount of energy humans use, because energy use creates quality of lifehttps://twitter.com/CountJ0ecool/status/1291383643290533889 …
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4/ if only there was a way to capture the costs associated with things, and thus set incentives appropriately so that individuals make the trade offs that optimize global utility but to do that we'd need, I dunno, "prices", and "charge" for electricity no idea how that'd workhttps://twitter.com/bcmerchant/status/1291126851943849984 …
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5/ imagine believing in 2020 that the market is incapable of incentivizing energy efficiency, contrary to the easily accessible historical record on the subject that shows it doing so Brian Merchant is the very dumbest person who believes himself clever https://twitter.com/bcmerchant/status/1291419365007478784 …
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6/ or, perhaps, the phenomena of diminishing returns reducing the energy use of every single thing REGARDLESS OF COSTS ON OTHER AXISES is not a smart move like graph of someone losing weight for a while, then stopping MAYBE THAT'S THEIR TARGET WEIGHT https://twitter.com/physicspod/status/1291422934733651970 …
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7/ The standard of living in the US is much higher than in other parts of the world. Human happiness is one of the things that any sane system should optimize for. North Korea uses far less energy per person than we do. This is not praise for NK. https://twitter.com/physicspod/status/1291426849894129667 …
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"Sure, I was totally wrong about this, but what about this completely different thing, huh? HUH!"https://twitter.com/bcmerchant/status/1291126851943849984?s=20 …
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Yep. It’s like if doing something triples your risk of some bad outcome. If the absolute risk is still incredibly rare, it may not be worth it for you to care
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But did you remember to factor in the "massive social cost?"
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But counterpoint, all increases are bad, and no expansion of our energy budget is reasonable. This is the only responsible way to live. Fungibility of resources is not what we're talking about in this thread.
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We aren't even close to maxing out the capacity of this sun yet.
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