niceguyanon comments on Why is it rational to invest in retirement? I don't get it. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: niceguyanon 21 May 2013 11:41:03PM 0 points [-]

land in scandinavia (if Hansons guess about the emulations hub is right),

Can you link me to this? I searched but could not find what you are talking about.

Comment author: gwern 21 May 2013 11:53:41PM 0 points [-]

It's a reference to 'em cities', where the limiting resource will be a combination of electricity generation + cooling. Scandinava has dams and geothermal energy so cheap electricity (think why Iceland has aluminum smelters) but also cold weather and even colder oceans, so cheap cooling.