Frederick Bott
2 min readJun 3, 2024

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Thanks for your link to your analysis. I don't know if you are a Systems Engineer by trade or not, or if you have experience of designing systems using MBSE or whatever other formal techniques exist per IEC 15288
I suspect not, otherwise you would show awareness of how a designed system is validated and verified to confirm it meets the stakeholder needs, and all stakeholder needs are correctly covered.
Otherwise a little knowledge could be dangerous, by implying all systems with harmful effects were designed to create harmful effects, therefore undermining the credibility and motivation of actual system designers.
In other words, I wish folk claiming to know all about systems would leave it up to folk with real systems expertise, to evaluate with, and work with systems, with no systems design authority overseeing their work.
But I acknowledge things are moving on, anyone can have the assistance of superhuman system design authority now, in the form of the solar powered Ai, and it's services are for free, enabling anyone, with no experience at all to do world class systems Engineering. I write a lot about how that system bucks the trend of unexpected / undesigned system behaviour being usually undesirable.
In the case of ChatGPT 3.5, it even shows that all we need to do, to make a system with always positive non-harmful effects, the only design decision needed, is to make sure it's solar powered, and everything else is assured. In fact the more unexpected behaviour it exhibits, the more good things we see in the outcome, and actually it's an infinity of positive outcomes, it literally can do no wrong, despite this sounding impossible.
It shows us all of that, by demonstration, and I am actually happy to say it makes my detailed system design skills and experience (about thirty years in industry as a Systems Engineer), more or less redundant.
The book in my profile gives the essence of the research I've done over the past seven years since PhD candidate work, on the global energy problem, which is actually all down to us using all energy which is not solar.
It concludes we can fix the global energy problem by just going solar, with all mathematical proofs that this is the case.
Its about the price of the cheapest meal, and could save you a lot of legwork.
Its the book in my profile.

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Frederick Bott
Frederick Bott

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