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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 22-Feb-2026 01:52:21 JST Paul Cantrell

   RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116109430224379547

   A fun thing to think about: Where are all the Singularity people with solar?

   There’s this whole pseudoscientific subculture organized around the one epistemological premise of “lines that go up will go up forever,” when in reality trends change and curves level off. And now here’s this one thing where people keep stubbornly predicting that it will level off and in fact the line (on a log scale) •has• kept going up far more consistently than predicted…. So why aren’t all the Effective Altruism people saying stuff like “In the future solar cells will save trillions of lives, so it doesn’t matter how many oil executives we kill in the present?”

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     0xC0DEC0DE07E8 (c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 22-Feb-2026 01:58:51 JST 0xC0DEC0DE07E8

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     @inthehands truly enlightening as to their true motives and understanding of the world. There is a massive amount of, as yet unharnessed, solar energy hitting us all the time and on geologic time that flux wont appreciably change. Solar panels from 25 years ago are showing incredible longevity and efficiency-retention. Fossil fuels kill throughout the entire cycle of using them and are broiling the planet. You want there to be future humans you can maximize fitness/happiness/whatever for? It’s pretty clear what they should be excited about if they actually cared about their stated values.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 22-Feb-2026 01:59:00 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @miss_rodent
     I mean, yes, the question was…if not rhetorical, at least highly leading

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     V (miss_rodent@girlcock.club)'s status on Sunday, 22-Feb-2026 01:59:01 JST V

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     @inthehands Because effective altruism is a scam by the ruling class, and you can't effectively charge rents on the sun as easily as you can on oil.