Silicon Valley faces a crisis of nonsense

Re:Silicon Valley faces a crisis of nonsense by chriswarbo on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @08:43AM (#37306902)

You've put "just" in quotes, but I don't see anyone making that claim. I agree we need radical changes to our behaviour, societies, economies, etc. The most effective way to do that is to tackle the biggest problems first; that's the best use of time, political capital, activist enthusiasm, news attention, etc.

(I say this as a vegetarian with no kids, who doesn't know how to drive and has spent the last few years working in the public transport sector; knowing none of these small actions will offset even a tiny fraction of the destruction being inflicted by oil companies, their paid-for politicians, etc.)

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Re:Silicon Valley faces a crisis of nonsense by palata on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @08:54AM (#37307053)

Sure. My point is that there are not only a couple of biggest problems that can be solved independently. There is one big problem: we rely too much on energy.

Which means there is one solution: we need to reduce drastically our dependence on energy. Everywhere. It's not a simple optimization problem where you can "profile" and solve the biggest problems in order. The only way this works is if we start fundamentally changing society.

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