@drbenjaminterry @Noahpinion "China cannot realistically fight Japan." 🤣🤣🤣

@Awaclus @Simon248 @_Andrew_Bean @Aella_Girl Again, just assuming the conditions for guaranteed annihilation. You're not making an argument at all, really, you're just assuming your conclusion.

@Awaclus @Simon248 @_Andrew_Bean @Aella_Girl No it doesn't 🤣 It can be as smart as you like, won't save it when its servers get glassed by a bomber. It's not going to "let" us destroy it? How is it going to stop us? Intelligence is not omnipotence!

@TexasOncologist @AlecStapp Very large and growing grid in Texas, better regulations/lack of bad regulations, better wind/solar resources.

@kevinonymous @FrankBednarz @politicalmath So..people can read it..?

@davidkkeene @AlecStapp @Noahpinion Take various measures to minimize damage, replace broken panels. People keep building them in areas with hail, so its apparently manageable.

@TexasOncologist @AlecStapp It is

@Awaclus @Simon248 @_Andrew_Bean @Aella_Girl You're assuming it wants unlimited resources. AFAICT you're just assuming all the necessary preconditions for an ASI to annihilate us, but you're not justifying why any of them are almost certain to happen. It's certainly possible, my objection is to the certainty.

@Awaclus @Simon248 @_Andrew_Bean @Aella_Girl Smarter does not mean more capable. If it's not quick there are plenty of ways to respond, like destroying it, or learning from the mistake and building better ASIs to counter it.

@Awaclus @Simon248 @_Andrew_Bean @Aella_Girl The ASI wouldn't be up against one human, it would be up against all of human civilization. The idea that it could easily and quickly destroy us is a pretty absurd assumption to even start with tbh. But if we do, it also has the power to easily avoid destroying us.

@Awaclus @Simon248 @_Andrew_Bean @Aella_Girl Again, it wouldn't need to take our survival very seriously because it is much more capable than us. You're just trying to have it both ways, the ASI is powerful enough to annihilate us but can't help but be just as limited as us in its ability to avoid tradeoffs.

@Awaclus @Simon248 @_Andrew_Bean @Aella_Girl If it's not nigh omnipotent how exactly is it going to wipe us out? The whole scenario relies on an a level of power we cannot resist, but that also implies a level of power to easily avoid wiping us out.

@Awaclus @Simon248 @_Andrew_Bean @Aella_Girl We protect things we don't need. An ASI doesn't need humans, but it also doesn't need to annihilate them. Again, you're assuming infinite power in its ability to destroy us, but limited power is its ability to avoid doing so.

@ImpalingIdiots @j_g_allen Blocked for being a typical right wing conspiracy theorist moron.

@AdamMantine @basinmusic @mattyglesias Why would it be different? It's just demand (which doesn't cause inflation).

@georgebernhard @arpitrage @salimfurth How do you supply sky high winter demand (from heating), while PV is 1/10th summer output?

@fee_matteo_ @VoronoiApp @VisualCap Lower fertility rate than Japan.

@FrankBraconi @Noahpinion @jasonfurman The pandemic has been completely memory holed and people take it as a failure when things didn't continue as if it had never happened.

@Awaclus @Simon248 @_Andrew_Bean @Aella_Girl It feels like you're rating an ASIs power very highly, except when it comes to said ASI being able to avoid harming us, then suddenly it's weak and harsh tradeoffs are unavoidable.