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by dogecoinbase 3309 days ago
How much energy goes into creating a civilization that produces that human?

Did... you really just say that, about a process that requires not only a civilization, but one sufficiently decadent that it can afford to waste resources making silicon that turns burned coal into pointless game victories?

The machine has no health care costs and can play 24/7.

I think by your previous metrics, you should be counting the heathcare costs of the ops folks who run the hardware, and I guess the healthcare costs of their healthcare workers, ad nauseum.