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Re:Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its c... by ghufran_syed on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @12:17AM (#40714024)
didn‘t the “tens of millions” of humans who died have any agency? And by definition, aren’t “energy companies” helping fix the problem of “energy poverty” which increases human welfare?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_poverty

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Re:Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its c... by smt88 on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @04:05AM (#40715240)
In both cases, the agency of individuals was undermined by regulatory capture and the publishing of false studies (despite having real studies that the companies buried).

For decades, people didn't even know it was dangerous to smoke or have lead in gasoline or burn fossil fuels because the information was systematically suppressed by the producers of those products.

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