Sender Spike
1 min readJan 13, 2025

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I agree that plants can be a source of inspiration. But only as far as how they behave, i.e. they produce oxygen and give it freely and without discrimination, don't asking for compensation. Alas, for people to behave that way, they have to realize first who they really are. Otherwise fear of inevitable death reigns supreme and with it also the relevant motivations and behaviors.

As for "solar AI" -- well, just lol. First, there's nothing remotely intelligent in AI as it is today (Artificial Idiocy would be a better reading of the acronym especially in the case of LLM search engines and generative collage makers), and solar has still such huge externalities that nuclear and hydro seem totally green in comparison. Also, the history of exploitation as you describe it is rather brief (merely some six thousand years), and it hinges on the concept of ownership of resources, not on our treatment of energy as such.

https://senderspike.medium.com/timeline-848bb4762a6b

https://senderspike.medium.com/how-to-save-the-world-d3fe3463f4ff

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