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<p><a
href="https://doctorow.medium.com/solar-is-a-market-for-financial-lemons-ea00699fe0a2">https://doctorow.medium.com/solar-is-a-market-for-financial-lemons-ea00699fe0a2<br>
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<p>I suspect the opinions among the members of this list range
widely on Doctorow's work, my general response to him is a guarded
positive.<br>
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<p>I offer this article to you nominally about the problems with
rooftop-solar "gaming" but as a reflection on Corporations (and I
claim governments, religions, other institutions) as "slow AI".
Rooftop Solar is just a contemporary somewhat benign case-study.<br>
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<p>They are both contrived as "rule-based" systems and evolved in
the same mode as Machine Learning Models. </p>
<p>The 2023 rush of AI/ML into the public's eye and hands might well
overwhelm us with false-paths to individual and collective
prosperity. Opportunities for dead-ends or overshoots abound in
the harsh light of <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward_hacking">"reward
hacking"</a>? <br>
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<p>And then we have the spectre of <br>
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