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causal claim

In the 1880s, the lack of electricity in U.S. homes meant that power plants and transmission lines had to be built for households to use electric light bulbs.

Unresolved speaker · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025

In their words

The transcript segments this claim was taken from

“then your face is a problem well i mean it's like 1880 or something and then u.s homes don't have electricity so then nobody can use it so now you have to build power plants and build power lines to the houses so that people have electricity in their homes so that they can actually use this new light bulb that you created so he did that and but then people present it as if it's like a okay he just came up with the idea like it's a light bulb”
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