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Sacramento and local governments in CA also

AI is WAY over rated.

Way, way, way overrated. The latest Security Guard Robot, developed for millions by IT Geniuses, drove itself into a fountain hours after it's test patrolling began. Speaking of AI, no robot built has learned to open simple latch doors yet.

This is something my organic replicant figured out a few weeks after he learned to walk.

2+ Billion years of Trial and Error with lives on the line since Eukaryotes first emerged, with mass extinctions from the Great Oxygenation Event to Snowball Earths to multiple Hothouses, Heavily Acidified Oceans, 350x CO2 levels, etc. etc. won't be caught up to anytime soon.

That's what they said about Wind and Solar.

It depends, ATMs etc work great and maybe making cars, burgers etc? But more complex stuff might be more difficult?

Thorium Molten Salt reactors must be built left and right. That's the solution.

You can keep the pressure inside less than that of the atmosphere, and since it doesn't cool with water nor does it need to be many times the atmospheric pressure at sea level, there's no steam escaping anyway like in Obsolete Uranium & Water Cooled reactors.

In the 70s, thanks to misguided environmentalists and Presidents Nixon through Carter, we nixed huge chunks of our nuclear research programs and lost half a century of development.

895Isp engines, bitches.

AI is the future, assuming they ever get it to work properly. It also might spell the doom of humanity. All depends on how the singularity goes!

THE SKY IS FALLING, FOLKS!!!!