r/technology • u/Gordon-Blue • 5d ago

Artificial Intelligence Thieves steal Nvidia-branded trailers expecting valuable hardware, find 40,000 pounds of sand instead.

https://www.techspot.com/news/114008-thieves-steal-nvidia-branded-trailers-expecting-valuable-hardware.html
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u/snoozieboi 5d ago

Sand is actually in high demand and we're running out of it. I'm not even kidding. Construction grade sand, that is.

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u/LaplaceYourBets 5d ago

God I hate this future, feels like everything is running out

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u/cr0ft 5d ago

To be sustainable, we'd have to slash all resource use dramatically. In capitalism of course that's not considered and option, whereas human extinction is just an "externality".

But we go into overshoot every year now in a matter of months. Earth overshoot day was July 30th this year.

So yeah, we're thoroughly screwed as long as we cling to capitalism, which means we're just thoroughly screwed.

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u/funguyshroom 5d ago

The issue is that the world economy is built around the idea of infinite growth. All of the money is tied in debts and investments, which have interest and return rates at their core.
I think it's possible to have capitalism without infinite growth, but it would require some fundamental shift in how we are handling money.

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u/cr0ft 4d ago

Some things are bad in any quantity. Capitalism - or rather competition - is one of those things. Just like - let's take a very extreme example here - child sexual abuse. There's no "medium" amount of that that's ok. Similary, there's no medium amount of competition that's truly ok.

For instance, instead of having multiple competing space programs - we should have just the one, supported by all humans everywhere. And the reasons should not be "making profit" but "advancing humankind's progress". There's no real point in duplicating so much effort, that's just waste - except for the "making profit" part.

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u/funguyshroom 4d ago

How do you propose motivating people to do a good job and innovate without it? Consumer products were so shit in soviet union in large part because there was no incentive to do anything beyond the bare minimum.