[ExI] ai is the easy road

[Keith Henson]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 10:29 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> I visited some of the poorest areas of the country, if measured in
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You *really* do not groik EP.

The trip in our psychological traits depends on *relative* changes.
Absolute poverty does not trip social unrest. Declining income or even the
prospect of it does.

But even in their poverty, they have a lot of room.  A lot of their food is
> homegrown, and they produce more than they consume.  So if food prices go
> up, so does the value of their crops.  Their quality of life is better than
> their urban counterparts who make twice as much money.
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I was not aware that WV grew a lot of crops. Where do they ship them?

In those poor rural areas there is a mixture of agriculture and coal
> mining.  The demand for coal is rising and has a very bright future.  We
> need to make triple the amount of electric power as we do now.
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That's not obvious. The AI hunger for power may dry up as fast as it came
about. Musk moved really fast with low efficiency used aircraft turbines
and may make his money back. For the rest, it is not so certain. One wild
card is the Chinese giving away AI for free.

That means tripling every energy source, if possible.  Falling water cannot
> be tripled.  That one is already maxed out.  But the other sources can be
> tripled.  I expect coal production to more than triple.
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> Around 2010, the federal government was busy making rules that shut down
> coal mines.  When asked what the unemployed miners should do, they were
> told to learn to code.  Now AI is shutting down a lot of what coders used
> to do, but fortunately they can now learn to mine coal.
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More likely program coal mining machines. The push is on to get humans out
of underground mining. Have you ever worked at a job similar to coal
mining? Have you ever been down in a mine? Hard, dangerous work. Would your
typical programmer last a day? I doubt it.

I found the morale of the populace in those impoverished areas to be very
> good.  Their optimism for the future is much higher than ours here.
> Granted they know nothing of the singularity or malign AI, never heard of
> it.  In the more rural areas, they don’t have internet (oh it is a pain in
> the ass to communicate with them) they don’t have cell phones, they don’t
> have cable TV.  They do have radio and land lines.  Their lives and their
> outlook on life is far different from ours.
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> >>…Mob lynchings went away.  EP works.
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> >…Mob lynching are out iof favor _at the moment_.
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> Ja.  Modern day lynchings require the victim to hire the mob.
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This is not understandable, can you explain?

>  >>…The error is in equating the current POTUS with Hitler.  …
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> >…The racial elements are the same…Keith
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> Ja, no.
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Ask the AI of your choice about this. MAGA and the other "conservative"
organizations are quite specific about the people they want to get rid of.
Ever heard of White Christian nationalism?

We struggle too hard to explain why an unpopular guy
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He is now, but he was popular enough to get elected. There are still people
(should I include you?) who consider him the greatest president ever.

won two of the last three elections by equating him with Hitler, when an
> easier explanation suffices: his opposition is divided against itself.
> This is having a bigger impact than the opposition party wishes to admit.
> But it is a coalition of increasingly incompatible elements.  EP works
> fine.
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And I make the case that you do not understand it.

Keith

But the modern republic party literally isn’t Nazism.  It hasn’t changed
> much from what it has been for a long time.  Its mainstream opposition
> party has changed significantly in the past twenty years: it has divided
> itself into two incompatible parties which still carry the same name.
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