And to be clear, we should have a national energy transition policy that is aggressively focused on putting anyone connected to fossil fuels out of work. That demands an equally robust transition policy for people. The abandonment of coal country is a textbook example of what not to do.

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The experience of coal miners in Appalachia, for example, suggests this is much easier said than done. I really don’t think you can look to the labor market to absorb a shift like this without strong government support, especially in coal mining areas.

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Point is that even if I agreed that many AI opponents were rentier facists (weird how so many AI opponents are ontologically evil?), that's also what every lab heading toward an IPO wants to be

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Lol I don't think AI labs are exactly trying to disintermediate themselves. Altman said I'm going to pay for intelligence like a metered utility

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"let me be clear" ... Really fucking tired of this phrase.

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