We don't need to imagine, we only need to look at China and see with our own eyes.
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2025
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I read money as monkey and wondered why monkeys were being turned to AI.
Shakespeare isn't gonna write itself I guess.
Gets even better when you count work-hours in a full economic net over direct implementation costs.
I don't think trains would require so much energy :)
Are the trains all maglev?
And each get to go around in them to anywhere on our own when we want, like our own personal luxury private jets?
Surely we can get creative to have trains require so much energy.
How you dare to say that? Don't you want to sloppy misinformation AI? You should be jailed! /J
The value of the entire tech megacorp bunch but in public or nonprofit train infrastructure - yes please.
... but considering that China is investing only 100bn monies annually into their railroads (and doing things beyond imagining with it) with such an investment you would just sit into your train seat & instantly get teleported to the desired location.
You could probably walk from east coast to west coast while the train stands still, while never touching the ground and having periodical spots to eat and drink (in the restaurant wagons) and to sleep in comfort (in the sleeping compartments). All of it for free too because they don't know what to do with that amount of money.
Or public transportation in general. Making cities more walkable. Helping with housing. Helping with food. Helping with medical or student loan debt. So many things
Even running trains would be better.
Weird way to segue to your mum.
Still better.