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Roko puts self on ice floe, saving us the trouble
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i like how he started on the premise that iceberg is cheap real estate, then okay let's cover underside with thermal insulation, and also reinforce top with freshwater ice, that freshwater will be have to be transported there and then frozen in place, and also let's cover top with expanded glass and concrete, and let's put wood pulp and basalt fiber rebar in ice, and
all while never counting beans, and any and all numbers are entirely pulled out of his ass
even on lesswrong the guy going through his numbers for how concrete behaves
Roko even said the 'I think agricultural waste products like straw can be substituted for sawdust so maybe you are paid to take it off their hands.[emph mine]' line. which is always a good sign when somebody is trying to the economically feasible math.
Even if it was waste, the sellers would notice and start charging for it. Libertarians have a fucked up definition of what 'waste' also with bitcoin mining.
straw goes for something like $70-100 per ton (in poland; depends on region and other factors) sawdust is probably cheaper