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No mention of energy of course. Or Jevon's paradox. Or how increasing complexity doesn't necessarily make life better.

Are you saying that solar panels covering the prairies will power all of this new electrical activity? And that AI will solve every other problem that we are currently enduring because they will help businesses lay off more workers?

Not the sure the AI equation is going to work out as some people think it is. Things will probably get real nasty before long and then all bets are off.

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While you graphs may be germane, they are much too small to be readable in the emails.

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All you ever write about these days is AI, which strikes me as "odd", because no one has any real idea of what it's going to lead to. I am a liberal Democrat who likes technology, so I'm basically pro AI, though whether it's going to be the 21st century equivalent of electricity and the internal combustion engine is still up in the air. Since you don't write about anything else--like say, the fact that Republican masses are enamoured of a criminal as their next presidential candidate, not because they don't think he's a criminal but because they do think he's a criminal, while the altermatives all want to invade Mexico--I kind of wonder if you prefer not to write about, you know, reality. I used to think you were a lone voice of "reason" at AEI. You seem to be sounding lonelier.

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I like the AI content. Wouldn’t mind more about intersecting areas like biotech and energy, though.

I’d say I’m really happy politics is not mentioned here much. Substack had plenty of that. I like how this author focuses on futurism, technology, innovation, and economics. I think all of those topics are more important for the future of society and there is plenty of people writing about other stuff.

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