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Best option by what metric? For which enterprises. I say this having worked at an “enterprise” where this was not a good option. For (lack of) talent/expertise, budget, infrastructure, and actual value relative to the eventual bottom line.

Well its not the only enterprise tool, but from the perspective of llm delivering enterprise spexifc insights

Still, to get results from that you need someone who can create a decent finetune. That might not be realistic, but it very well could be realistic to have someone optimize some prompts and curate a knowledge base. Point is, its a possibility but “best” depends on the nuances of reality.

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> Make Solar Energy Economical Isn’t it already?

Not enough. The more economical it is, the better.

The paradox of solar is that more economical it is for the end users the less money is there to be made. So nobody wants to invest in it.

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Life's unfair, avoiding power concentration is a decent principle. If you grow up in the right place at the right time, how much should you be in control of everyone else's life?

There is no "should" there are only "is" or "is not" The universe has no need to be fair.

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AIs are (going to be) agents, not tools.

And what's the difference?

Agents act on their own. If the hammer looked at what you wanted nailed and said, "Sorry, Dave, I can't do that."

There are degrees of autonomy, of course, and not all noncompliance is bad. Same as with humans; biological agents.

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post #325

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And what's the difference?

Agents act on their own. If the hammer looked at what you wanted nailed and said, "Sorry, Dave, I can't do that." There are degrees of autonomy, of course, and not all noncompliance is bad. Same as with humans; biological agents.

But it seems much easier to realign an agent until it complies. Or ditch it and grab a new one.

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Solar is not (yet) economical for reliable, year-round electricity because of storage costs. China coal use is growing again this year.

Solar is profitable to install at both industrial and home scale in most areas. You're moving the goalposts.

It's a lot more complicated than that -- Solar is great for discretionary, opportunistic, and time-shiftable additive demand, but not for replacing all-day baseline load. Using solar to dip into baseline demand sometimes is catastrophic, because the "profit" is exploiting its failure to provide consistent, reliable power but charging "default" prices that have an implicy assumption that power is consistent and reliable.

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Not enough. The more economical it is, the better.

The paradox of solar is that more economical it is for the end users the less money is there to be made. So nobody wants to invest in it.

That's solved by either private monopoly charging money to fund investment, or public monopoly raising taxes to fund investment.
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