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But the AI fanatics claimed that AI would solve cold fusion, making that whole thing moot.

The only problem is, if AI doesn’t solve cold fusion, we’re back to square one. And a few trillion dollars in the hole.

There’s a joke that in a couple of years, after spending trillions of dollars, burning mountains of coal to run country-sized datacenters and boiling all the oceans, we finally achieve AGI.

Then the first question we ask it is: 'How do we fix climate change?' And it answers: 'you can start by unplugging me'

If we're counting, the USA was already pretty deep in the hole. Anybody that has experienced crippling debt understands there's a point of no return where you just embrace it.

And that point is right before rock bottom.

Government debt is different - mostly gets inflated away.

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