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Comment This is the real danger (Score 3, Interesting) 57

All of these boomers say we need to limit AI research because AI will "kill us all".

But here we find the real danger - people who wantonly deploy AI without realizing the limits it has, including hallucination of answers, AI as we know it today, should never exist in the role they have placed it in, given how it can simply make up information.

Instead some kind of advanced search engine should hewn been applied to look up online docs, or else the AI should have been heavily constrained to have to point to origin sources with a secondary system deciding if the origin source agreed with what it said.

Until we are anywhere close to eliminating hallucination we must allow for open ongoing research, and be more cautious about rolling out AI in positions of public trust.

Comment Hmm, what else does that apply to... (Score 1) 109

Restarting the plan only works with government subsidies and continued government subsidies

Solar and Wind entered the chat

BOOM

They don't live without subsidy and massive government expense either. The difference is that the nuclear power plant will continue to provide power for decades going forward, when the solar and wind farms would have had to be replaced four times over before the nuclear plant shutters.

Being anti-nuclear is simply the most retarded possible stance at this point in time.

Comment Solar maybe not a great idea after all (Score 2, Insightful) 109

I personally disagree and would rather see the money spent on wind and solar.

Solar might end up being a lot more expensive than nuclear - weather events can break solar and wind farms, will do nothing to nuclear plants.

For the amount of power it will supply, certainly this particular pre-existing plant is VASTLY cheaper than new wind/solar.

This is literally a reactor from the '70s so you can't even argue that modern tech makes it safe.

That's a really stupid argument since it was actually RUNNING JUST FINE from 70's onward until recently when they shut it down, it's proven to be safe.

Comment Big whoops - you forgot construction paid for (Score 1, Informative) 109

Nuclear plants do not make any financial sense.

It is your LCOE lies that do not make any sense. If you decide you can run a nuclear plant for decades longer, what does THAT do to LCOE? Why look, since all of the LCOE being high for nuclear is based around construction costs, it massively lowers LCOE when you extend the life of a plant - or re-open one. Because simply running a nuclear plant day to day is incredibly economical compared to solar or wind...

Re-opening the plant was cheaper than any solar or wind system that would produce an equivalent amount of power, over the many decade remaining lifespan of the plant.

Comment Is this Reddit? (Score -1, Flamebait) 116

Is this Reddit? Because YTA.

Been a while since I've seen such an egregious collection of misinformation in a post.

Just a few random points you got wrong, out of the large total:

1) Not up to Apple to port third party iOS apps to Android.

2) No one pressures people to switch to Android because it's not liked as much it's just there.

3) Market capitalization has nothing to do with how much they are making.

4) You could have used a Lightning to headphone adapter all along champ, you never had to use Bluetooth.

5) The blue/green bubble is not vindictive, it's a technical indicator giving you important information about what you can and cannot send to other other side. It was humanity at large that came to the conclusion that green bubble people were lower on the social stratum.

Have to say your wife sounds nice though.

Comment How do they really know it was watched (Score 5, Interesting) 169

A few times, I've fallen asleep watching some YouTube video on the couch, and woken up an hour or two later... with several videos having been played through while I was basically AFK.

Seems pretty bad to capture data on people watching anything, on a platform that auto-plays random strings of videos based on what it thinks you might want to see. Or, at the very least a pretty useful dataset.

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