Yeah but Three Mile Island? Seriously?
Now it's possible that the MSFT press release gave it a more anodyne name and the press sussed out where it was, but still.
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There’s a specific kind of online commentator that’s a carrier of the meme that the public turn against nuclear power was the final nail in the coffin for Western civilization. I don’t have any proof of this, other than cultural. Nuke fondlers tend to be culturally and politically conservative, generally with engineering or science degrees, and seem to pine for the idealized 50s so present in tradwife media nowadays (although nuke love precedes that by decades).
Opposition to nuclear power was sort of a death knell for the ideal of the technocrat.
Now of course nuke enthusiasts tend to be libertarians too, and they run smack into the fact that nuclear is really capital-intensive and expensive to insure. Thus the pipe dream of the inherently safe “container reactor”.
Sweden’s current gov is driven a lot by opposition to all things Green (both the party and the ideas) and pushed for the construction of 10 new reactors. It turns out that the industry has been burned by vacillating govs before and required hard financial guarantees, as well as a iron-clad price floor for electricity, to commit. So the pitch to the public would be: there’s no way you can lower your per-unit power cost for 30 years, and in return you get 10 items widely perceived as ugly and dangerous.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who was "arc? whazzat?" when this popped up in my feed. At first I thought it was Paul Graham's wimpy Lisp.
Obligatory HN link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41598803
Pray for poor Prospera, beset by "leftists".
"to give you more AI slop we have to restart TMI" is going to do wonders for the public's opinion of Big Tech
This is just standard promptfondler false equivalence: "when people (including me) speak, they just select the next most likely token, just like an LLM"
Oh, that craziness is orthodoxy (check the last part of the quote).
The reference to the Basilisk was literally one sentence and not central to the post at all, but this big-R Rationalist couldn't resist on singling it out and loudly proclaiming it's not relevant anymore. The m'lady doth protest too much.
Here in Sweden the hygienist is definitely the Bad Cop in this scenario. I got sternly talked to by someone fresh out of school, so I don't doubt there's a retired Master Sergeant on the staff of the college they go to...
you just know Musk has internalized all the pro-1911 arguments so he can hang out with the "cool guys" on the range
Yeah this isn't the plan.
The plan is to get the stars in for a couple of days in front of a green screen, have them say their lines, then use "AI" to generate the rest of the scene. You want to get rid of all the labor around scouting sets, getting permits, constructing them, lighting them, feeding the crew etc. That's where a big part of the cost of making a movie lies.