• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    I can’t see it being more affordable to use humans to farm asteroids than machines. Life support systems seem expensive long term. That said, I also can’t think of a resource that would be worth mining off planet in that time frame.

    • leftytighty@slrpnk.net
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      20 hours ago

      granted, I should have given more thought to my hyperbolic hypothetical.

      point being I dread to think what “lesser evil” we’re looking at when the time comes

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        17 hours ago

        No you really shouldn’t have to be. They are responding in bad faith and distracting from the point of a serious conversation by um actuallying the fake sci-fi of a hypothetical.

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          17 hours ago

          out of the principle of charity I chalked it up to the type of person who fixates on the wrong thing but I suspect you’re right

          • RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
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            17 hours ago

            I usually just blame how autistic Lemmy is. Unironically, the amount of neurodivergent people here is huge and a common trait is focusing on the wrong fuckin details, especially with hypotheticals