Ask HN: Why aren't we more scared of Moore's Law ending/slowing down?

Re:Ask HN: Why aren't we more scared of Moore's Law ending/s... by xg15 on Thursday May 19, 2022 @05:54PM (#31440639)

I don't understand where the "if something is abundant, it can be wasted until it isn't" mindset is coming from, but yeah, given that the last big tech hype was about blockchain, a tech that intentionally wastes as many resources as possible, I guess that mindset is still alive and well.

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Re:Ask HN: Why aren't we more scared of Moore's Law ending/s... by FunnyBadger on Thursday May 19, 2022 @10:52PM (#31442820)

There's an economic paradox about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

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Re:Ask HN: Why aren't we more scared of Moore's Law ending/s... by hulitu on Friday May 20, 2022 @03:17AM (#31444303)

Just compare games made for ZX Spectrum, or old DOS games with games made for PCs today. The modern games are huge texture decompressors. On Spectrum you had to use every pixel on the screen even when it was not individually addressable. On modern PCs you use jpeg textures. On Spectrum if you skip some CPU cycles your game will struggle. On modern games you wait hours for the game to update.

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