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Cake day: June 6th, 2026

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  • You are right that they use less resources and cause less damage if they don’t work, at least as long as our economical system does not internalize external costs and does not discourage using non-regenerating resources. From that point of view it’s probably better they do nothing worse than being retired. In a better system they would do something beneficial.

    I just wanted to oppose the notion that they unlocked the “prosperity” achievement (i.e. we now have prosperity forever thanks to them) through hard work and have deserved to retire at 60.



  • The known reserves will be gone in ~50 years (at the current rate of usage, which is only 4.3% of the worlds primary energy consumption, if we replace the 75% fossil fuels with nuclear then “poof its gone” ). There will be more but it will get increasingly more difficult to extract it. Extracting Uranium from seawater is still in its laboratory phase and its far from clear it can be done economically. The long term disposal of nuclear waste is still largely unsolved.

    We should only retire at 60 after we figured it all out, shouldn’t we?