Something I’m pondering:

Non-renewable energy is a very generic broad category. Lots of things will burn happily in an oxygen atmosphere with very low tech enabling. Fossils, living things, moist dead things…

But renewable energy is always a high-precision narrow technology: wind, solar, photosynthesis, tidal…

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Renewables are fundamentally higher tech because second law

No way around it

Bring “nerdsniped” is about being hooked into a narrow renewable psyche energy source via a very specific mechanism.

Applied to psyche… almost any kind of trauma, resentment, fucked-upness will “burn” in a polluting way to power a psyche at the expense of strengthening a shadow/void. 

But renewable psyche energy always comes from a very precise mechanism. Like proving math theorems.