We have a clearer path to energy abundance than we do to AGI, and it's likely to be upon us sooner, and it will be as or more transformative to human civilization, and we talk about it about 1/1000 as much.
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Indeed, more than 380 environmental groups called on the incoming Biden administration to declare a climate emergency and mandate that federal funding be used for rooftop solar, boosting DERs, e.g. above parking lots. The Biden admin was not willing to fully use its executive orders on energy.
When you say clearer do you mean - it’s clearly obvious how we would do it if we wanted to? Rather than… the path we are clearly taking because I feel we’re on road 2 right now and that elites are prioritizing AGI
They've realised that Canada supplied them with timber they need for building.
Everything feels like America pushing away international competition. Do they really have the staff ready and trained to expand their timber supplies? Or is this a club to beat Canada with?
There's no cult of drug addled billionaires that's been cooked on misunderstanding scifi for new efficient energy sources and you can't rape a cool roof (JD Vance excluded) so they don't care.
But only one can be explained/marketed to a largely scientifically illiterate population with trivia-grade use cases and profited from through feckless arbitrage on s short-term bias.
And yet we are stuck with the AGI accelerationists and the “Mars bitches!!” dreamers. I love space exploration but I’ll be damned if our chief and primary focus should be on the only planet we know of (or can reach) with conditions for life.
But the other one has the potential of solving the problem of "no customers because they are too poor to buy anything"! So, even a cold-hearted capitalist should be very excited about it!
I'd like to know that too. Perhaps it's a reference to fusion? Which still seems a long way from commercial reality, especially if we can't develop a deuterium-only based method.
Fusion is at this point a realistic possiblity.
We have the tech now from a combination of renewables, solar, nuclear, and short term battery storage (still needs a bit of work, but that's coming too). Space based solar is a possibility as well.
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-expansion-of-american-timber-production/
Everything feels like America pushing away international competition. Do they really have the staff ready and trained to expand their timber supplies? Or is this a club to beat Canada with?
Solving solvable problems is “boring” but actually helps.
They don’t want to help. They want to stand out. And if they solved these solvable problems they would, but not on their terms.
People being...you know...people, with unlimited (or near-unlimited) cheap energy, we will produce, use, and discard a lot more shit we don't need.
I suspect AGI fans have several such arguments, but they are all deeply problematic so they prefer to not share them.
We have the tech now from a combination of renewables, solar, nuclear, and short term battery storage (still needs a bit of work, but that's coming too). Space based solar is a possibility as well.