Have you seen the behavior of parties captured by the capitalist end of the political spectrum? They very much are not the rational actors trying to preserve their own income by keeping consumers alive. If they were they would try to optimize consumer health and spending money instead of aiming for highscore-like accumulation of wealth in the hands of a few that can’t spend it on anything meaningful any more anyway because they can already afford everything that could meaningfully improve their life a million times over.

I am so sick and tired of these control problem people not understanding that a) we do not have AI that is anywhere near as advanced as they worry about and b) we already have human organizations called corporations who have been acting exactly like the AI they worry about for decades.

Also never even start optimizing until you profile and are sure the bit you are trying to optimize even matters to the overall performance of your program.

Might make an interesting science fiction novel, AI takeover via teaching the next generation as an AI assistant to their parents.

Makes sense, taller Germans throw too much of a shadow to make the solar worth it.