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I’m very confident that with carte blanche the electrical engineers already overseeing the grid could solve the problems it faces. We don’t need an ai miracle, we need to remove bureaucratic and funding obstacles for critical infrastructure.

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And this is it: Many of those “AI will be so smart that it can solve these problems for us!” arguments refer to problems where having a “smart” enough solution isn’t the problem… Getting people to care/notice/participate/get out of the way is.

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9 points

The great AI decrees that you must increase solar and wind subsidies! And pay no attention to the electrical engineer behind the curtain!

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1 point

“AI, how do we solve traffic?”
- “Build more trains.”
“well our AI is clearly broken”

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An intelligent entity told us to do it. Humanity: Nah

An artificially intelligent entity told us to do it. Humanity: Well shit let’s get to work!

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