alt Hacker NewsThe resources per prompt aren’t that much .
Also I hope you don’t have children, eat meat, travel, have a car, run AC, buy things in other countries and such. Those things all take way way way more natural resources.
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hexfish • yesterday at 9:02 PM
Checkmate. /s
All your examples are private goods: excludable and rival. If one person uses a unit, that prevents others from using them.
Patches to open source software are public goods. Your using them doesn’t prevent others from using them. So if you spend resources creating a public good, it’s in everyone’s interest to share it.