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by surgeryres 1876 days ago
I think it’s a great idea to build mud huts on another planet where labor is scarce, machine energy is under different constraints, and certain resources are “unlimited”.

But this approach for building a house on Earth to house humans seems way off the bell curve of potential to scale.

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You do realize that millions of people live in houses made of soil, right?

And if you consider that brick houses have bricks made of clay, that's even more...