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d country risks, etc., he would probably say low birth rate is a gigantic problem in every developed country apparently. And not having enough electricity for AI might be the other gigantic variable that it would be easy to overlook if you don't follow the news pretty closely. So yeah, have more babies and more electricity and you're going to be in good shape. According to the Washington Free Bea…

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s. But Benioff estimates that the software company has reached I don't know exactly what this means 93 percent accuracy using AI. 93 percent accuracy. Now, is that as good as people? Because people are not too perfect. So if AI is competing with people for these jobs, is 93 percent is that going to get it done? I don't know. Would you spend tens or hundreds of millions of dollars on a technology that would be wrong 7 percent of the time? Would you? I don't know. Maybe he's betting on improvements in AI, but that doesn't sound too great.

Anyway, but something that is great is over in the UK. The Dyson, you know Dyson, the engineering technology company, they built an indoor strawberry farm that is worked by robots. So the robots are checking on stuff and picking the strawberries. And they came up with this really innovative method where instead of just putting things in an indoor garden and then picking them when they're done, they have these big rotating drums that allow the strawberries to essentially get the right amount of light by rotating slowly so that all the strawberries get enough light. And what this taught me is that I have this interest in indoor farms. I'm just nerdy enough to care about that kind of stuff. But I always imagined that the indoor farms would be growing a variety of food. But I'm now completely convinced that every indoor farm should optimize over one product like the strawberries because probably you wouldn't grow the potatoes the same way or corn or anything else. So I think robots plus indoor farms plus only one product per farm so you can optimize it maybe has a future there.

There's still it's tough to get protein from an indoor farm. So even if you had an indoor fish farm it'd be hard to maintain that.

So all right ladies and gentlemen that's all I had for today. That's the news for today. It's Friday and I know you're ready to start your weekends. I'm going to talk privately to my beloved subscribers on Locals and the rest of you I hope you'll come back tomorrow and we'll do it again. Same time, same place. All right, 30 seconds. We will be private on Locals.