Fuck AI

I'm talking about the idealised "free market" presented in economics textbooks. That is something which does not exist in reality, and cannot exist in reality. But we can create something which is a close enough approximation and maintain it using regulation to prevent unwanted behaviours that result in an undesirable distribution of resources. Fundamentally, the "free market" is more like a game mechanic which allows us to use the laws of game theory to manage the distribution of resources (electricity) against another resource (money). It's just a tool that can be manipulated to cause economic actors to behave in a certain way. It's similar to how cap-and-trade systems seem to function somewhat well in terms of distributing a scarce resource to the most economically-productive uses. Not perfect, but shocking good for the low amount of infrastructure it requires.

This is not about capitalism, and I'm not really interested in debating the merits of that at this hour on this old of a comment.