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Your electricity bill is set by the grift of archaic fossil energy industries. And nuclear qualifies as a fossil industry because it's still essentially digging ancient stuff out of the ground, moving it around the world, and burning it in huge dirty machines constructed at vast expense.

There are better options, and at scale they're literally capable of producing electricity that literally is too cheap to meter.

The reasons they haven't been built at scale are purely political.

Today's AI is computing's equivalent of nuclear energy - clumsy, centralised, crude, industrial, extractive, and massively overhyped and overpriced.

Real AI would be the step after that - distributed, decentralised, reliable, collaborative, free in all senses of the word.



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