hmm but only if it's also cheap enough, compared to wind/solar. Given that these two are "intermittent", pairing them with nuclear — which is the opposite of "intermittent" — for the "base load" is not ideal either.

"It's at least as good as our best customer service representative, and it's probably on average better"

This stuff makes me stumble immediately and I can't make myself read on: if AI is at least as good as the best human, it _must be_ better on average.

Oh wait, that sentence was probably written by generative LLM, those are known to be poor at maths

I'm so old I remember reading this with astonishment.

I went voting in the local election this morning, first time having to show photo ID thanks to new law, and was immediately identified as "Dutch" by the election assistant. I couldn't figure out why at first, but then I saw it says "Deutschland" right on the front of my passport: near enough aparrently.

The good news is that subsidence can be halted, first by stopping the overextraction of groundwater, then ideally by pumping water back into the ground.

It's not so easy to get water for this purpose though, maybe they should just buy ice from Greenland (before it melts anyway) and drag the bergs to SC, then pump the melt into the ground.