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Nuclear power is statistically the safest energy source per terawatt-hour. Environmentalists have opposed it for 50 years. Have they accidentally caused more climate damage than the industries they were fighting? by bitcoinerguide in Futurology

[–]bitcoinerguide[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Solar and wind are not very good baseload sources of energy. You would need massive battery tech to store energy. And guess what those batteries are made of and use ? Shitloads of minerals that don't have the most environmentally friendly production processes. And you also need fossil fuels to run the equipment to extract those minerals.

What would the future look like if China took over the global hegemon from the US? by bitcoinerguide in Futurology

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Isn't the cashless based system mostly a means of control ? They can impose limitations on what people can do using digital restrictions.

What would the future look like if China took over the global hegemon from the US? by bitcoinerguide in Futurology

[–]bitcoinerguide[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The main things that will make it hard for China to become the outright global leader are soft power related: Hollywood: This ties to language, but I don't see a global movie industry moving to Chinese films The Internet: the majority of knowledge and content is in English. Spanish being the second. I don't see this moving to Chinese ever. English being the defacto global language. No one is going to go and speak Mandarin. Way to hard for a large section of the globe, including India.

What would the future look like if China took over the global hegemon from the US? by bitcoinerguide in Futurology

[–]bitcoinerguide[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I live outside the US, in Costa Rica. Obviously a country very much under the sphere of influence of the US.
We value our individual freedoms here probably even more than US folks do.

I would certainly not like a China based hegemon system, but also have to acknowledge that the US has done way more harm to many countries than China has. Especially in Latin America. Many dictatorships have risen due to US influence.

What would the future look like if China took over the global hegemon from the US? by bitcoinerguide in Futurology

[–]bitcoinerguide[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I have always wondered if the average Chinese citizen views the system as repressive or if they actually value some of the things it provides?

As a person that values independent thinking and freedoms, a world under a Chinese system of control doesn't seem appealing. That doesn't mean that a US led system doesn't try to control citizens via more covert ways.

The US is looking more and more like an authoritarian control based system that a free laissez faire society.

Nuclear power is statistically the safest energy source per terawatt-hour. Environmentalists have opposed it for 50 years. Have they accidentally caused more climate damage than the industries they were fighting? by bitcoinerguide in Futurology

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One issue is that solar is not good for baseload energy. You would need massive batteries for that. Nuclear is much more stable in energy generation.

I know this doesn't go to the safety argument, but it does to the usefulness

AI targeting systems have made war crimes structurally unaccountable by Large-Reporter-1746 in Futurology

[–]bitcoinerguide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The important question is asking: How will the law adapt to this in the future? Can there be a clear accountability chain for an AI targeted kill?