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Interesting point for thinking about AI: “It is hardly surprising that, in itself, oil companies should extol the age of oil or gas sellers the age of gas. What is more surprising, and needs to be explained, is the infatuation of intellectuals with these promotional tropes.” Of course, AI companies hype up AI replacing everything - even as it does no such thing - but why do so many others accept these binaries?

YES! “The attraction of the ‘political’ history of energy, which is also its flaw, is that it tends to present climate change as a capitalist conspiracy. This apparently radical but ultimately reassuring story underestimates the immensity of the climate challenge. Getting out of carbon will be far more difficult than getting out of capitalism, a condition that is prob. necessary but certainly not sufficient”