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I recommend Tales of Pirx the Pilot, the collection of short stories, many of which paint AI as a true reflection of human intelligence with its flaws, quirks, instincts. From AI crashing a starship during a landing to an android "dying" rock climbing.

There is also a preface he wrote to his book called Golem XIV which gives reader a historical overview of the evolution of AI. Golem is of course the name of the model and XIV is its version, just like ChatGPT 4, but many iteration later. Lem describes how each iteration was more and more expensive to build, but more and more intelligent and useful. Until it became more intelligent than men and... lost all interest in affairs of our kind. As always, he was on point.

Measuring each individual product is complicated and doesn't have to reflect brand's entire emission output. If a company is 10% manufacturing and 90% marketing then the methodology used by carbonfact will be underreporting the emissions.

Some brands (inc. Nike) are already disclosing their total emission. Others might be forced to do so in a near future by regulators. Would it be possible to have a metric calculated simply as 'total emissions / units sold'?

Still, I hope this will give politicians some courage to tackle the problem with full strength.

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If AWS can charge their clients by milliseconds then I'm pretty sure an airline can add a zero to a 10th ticket booked on the same passenger's name.

The number of products/services taxed progressively wouldn't have to be huge to make a difference. You don't need to progressively tax an electric toothbrush just energy consumption, but all products should be taxed based on their production externalities.

Using X costs you Y Using XX costs you YYY Using XXX costs you YYYYYY

This way water, electricity would still be cheap for most and would incentivise to stop overusing it.

You could still get a cheap flight once a year, but you won't be able to fly every weekend.

You might be good at puzzles. Or stories. Maybe visuals ain't your thing and you can write a text based game - there are great engines for that. Maybe you're a great dev and can start hack your own Dwarf Fortress and keep on doing it for the rest of your life.

Gaming and tech behind is so varied that whoever you are, you'll find something that plays to your skills.

Anyway, if you want to make chess your profession (you don't need to be a GM to make a living), keep your mind healthy!

Just make 99% of the car traffic infeasible (slow, expensive...) and market will come up with alternative ways to make 99% of activities that today require a car feasible without them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Futurological_Congress [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)

Dual scale would make it possible to differentiate between two similar products - an "eco" cotton bag could be orange/green while a single plastic use bag could green/red. This way every one would know that an eco bag is worse than a plastic one unless you use it a lot.

Finally, producers would be motivated to optimise environmental impact of all kinds of products because having a red label would be shameful.

A sticker on a diesel car would be RED/RED and a sticker on a tiny EV car would be RED/GREEN.

A sticker on an apple from a domestic market would be GREEN/GREEN and an apple imported from a country 1000s miles away would be GREEN/ORANGE.

Ideally, the labeling would be a reflection of a fiscal mechanism to charge for externalities in the entire chain - from production to a sale and disposal.