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In Bush era gestures at green tech, we briefly got excited about biodiesel. But in the US that meant corn, and experts got upset because corn biodiesel is negative EROI. I saw one person describe it as "a corn disposal method". In that sense, I posit Bitcoin and AI to be "compute disposal methods".

The US has immovable political forces that mean huge amounts of corn must be grown. More than we can eat. We must figure out some way of justifying it on paper. Similarly, the hardware industry *has* to make bigger, more powerful chips all the time. What if demand doesn't exist? We manufacture it