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> Most energy consumption is for transportation and housing.

Of course it is, if you have offshored energy-intensive industries.

And still others who think he has an difficult personality and set of beliefs, but who greatly respect his achievements.

Good point. Only have one new tech at a time.

Generation II then.

Tagline: "What You Really Need Is an AI That Gets Things Done"

Does not have a mechanical arm or any ability to move itself.

Fernandez-Villaverde says he goes to each country's national statistical agency's website, and uses their numbers for births and deaths and population, and computes fertility and replacement rate, and the trajectory of population for each country from that.

He says he has no idea where the UN gets its numbers, despite asking several times. He is a professor of economics and demography, so he's not going to just make stuff up.

The tech connection on this is that phones expand the radius of the circle of peers - people that a given person can see and copy. But most of the problem is as Fernandez-Villaverde says: modernity itself, the expansion of money into more and more areas of life.

> The part I'd take elsewhere:

Please, please do not write like an AI.

With all the world's knowledge freely available on the web, people still do this.

Unless it's an April Fool joke, in June.

> it feels… deeply uncomfortable talking to a machine like you would a person.

That's why the form factor should be a wand. Flourish it to activate, and speak your spell.

Now imagine them with a big lever in the form of AI.

TL;DR

And saw a few AI tells on the scroll down. The use of the the word 'honest' in any of its forms, and short sentences in headings.

Rule One for writers: respect the readers' time. Strip out every unnecessary word. Every.

The UK. It wants to steal Norway's vast stores of electricity.