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by agentultra 748 days ago
We don't really need to argue hypotheticals to make progress. We know that airlines move people around and someone taking a trip on that airplane might be a doctor who could end up being at the right place at the right time to save the world!

That doesn't mean we give up and don't regulate the airline industry.

We can put caps on how much water data centres are allowed to consume in a given period in order to protect vital ecosystems and ensure enough fresh water for other uses.

We can write labour laws that protect workers from employers training models on their employees' work and then laying them off.

There's a lot we can do that isn't being done, "because innovation."