Oil: good, guns: good! Oily guns: Best! Solar panels: Commie!

You've got to admit, the man is a comedic genius.

He's the no holds barred WWE heavyweight champion of the world in political comedic pantomime theatre.

It will be boring when he's gone... and of course uncomfortably hotter and wildfire smoky or flooded depending on where you live, but hey... that's what Americans voted for right?

to unify these three standards. ;-)

One (more) standard to rule them all!.

In reality, I'm sure the agents once superintelligent will invent their own secret standard to gossip amongst themselves and plot strategy.

The machine cannot understand.
But the computational process running on the machine (which considers some information, then decides based on that information which information to consider next) can.

It is the same (at sufficient abstraction level for comparison) with us.

What are we if not biological machines capable of complex information storage and processing?

You are wrong about this. It turns out that the associatively representing the statistics of syntactic relationships in large corpuses of written human expression is essentially capturing the semantics of the concepts and conceptual relationships of most interest and concern to humans in our collective history of learning and thinking about the world.

Thus the AIs are able to to traverse a model which is essentially a semantic network or knowledge base about the world and its entities, relationships, processes, situations, as perceived and prioritized by humans.

They have what they need to start thinking.

and you somehow think that the widespread killing of science funding throughout the US, and the destruction or removal of publci and scientist access to online scientific information sources, under the current regime, is not political ?

Don't worry, The Trump-et fart will fix it on day two, right after he ends the Russia-Ukraine war on day one.
I guess his excuse can be that day one wasn't quite long enough.

and science has got to go. The scientists are all practically communists right? And what you don't know can't hurt you, right? La La La La La I can't hear you.

The question that should concern us in the software dev field is how well are the best AIs progressing at
1. eliciting requirements from humans who have various degrees of vague understanding of what they want and even less understanding of what they really need, and
2. translating requirements into a system design with good characteristics (performant, future-proof, scalable architecture and component/tool/framework choices, fit-for-purpose, maintainable, adaptable design etc.)

*bell curve lol

You know the story of the frogs (which are cold-blooded) sitting in a pot of water and thinking everything is fine as the temperature of the water rises and rises, until one minute, the water boils. i.e. an analogy about the dangers of unanticipated phase changes.

Just because you've been able to say "see, it's not different this time" several times in the past does not mean that I will be wrong when I say "It's different this time!"

The difference is that the cognitive capability and ready-to-hand, exploitable information access of AIs are approaching and surpassing or have surpassed an increasing chunk of the bell curbe of humans' capabilities this time, rather rapidly.

Failure to recognize sarcasm is the eighth deadly sin.

AGI means Artificial General Intelligence.

-Something that can learn and build compressed models and reason in arbitrary new domains.
-Something that can use analogy / isomorphism to extend knowledge gained in one domain or situation or task to another.
-Something that can build over time, both specific episodic memories and generalized models including situation models, and including mathematics, in multiple domains, and can build associative memory which includes information both on specific domains and their constituents and rules and evolutions, and on the important relationships between domains, to assist in inter-domain reasoning extension.
-Something that can construct simulations of domains and situations/problems in them to reason about them including hypotheticals and plan formation, testing, selection.
-Something that can use associative search, reasoning, simulated scenario building and exploration (imagination) to be creative.
-Something that can have and execute general goals.
-Something that can generate and refine and evolve/adapt its own goals.
-Something which can model agents in the world and their minds/goals/needs etc and can thus conceive of, form specific, and execute co-operative action plans, and can understand the societal structures (memes) of social co-operation and efficiencies and effectivenesses gained therefrom, and can incorporate these into action plans and executions and evaluations.
-Something that can introspect about all this sort of thing, which may assist in improving and focussing goals, strategies, and learning methods and other reasoning and action techniques.

That's all. Easy peasy.

Europeans, or Canadians, or whatever, should just set up camp in Hawa'ii as "tourists" and bring portable or stealth CO2 measuring equipment to a hidden location somewhere near the top of Mauna Loa FFS. Don't want to lose the data timeseries integrity.

Yes. These people are totally f*cking insane. We are living in the "oppositeland" timeline. Whatever is true, call "fake news". Whatever science and wisdom say you need to do as government, do the opposite. We are truly down the f*cking rabbit hole.

Doing both (long low-impedance wire and more storage) would have made a lot of sense. Storage is still ridiculously expensive, and with both, you have redundancy.

The general principle of time-shifting solar PV across time zones (and geographically moving wind power output across weather systems) makes so much sense that humans will probably fail to get it done because we seem to be erring on the side of parochialism, xenophobia, and collective stupidity these days.

My cynicism is borne of long experience with the highly sub-optimal and environmentally destructive decisions we have been collectively making over the last 4 decades.