Trump guts nuclear safety regulations

“The president signed a pair of orders on Friday aimed at streamlining the licensing and construction of nuclear power plants — while panning the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for its ‘myopic’ radiation safety standards.”

We now have industry capture of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Who here knows about Admiral Hyman RIckover? All of this is worth reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover#Safety_record

Indeed. And significantly below current levels of population.

How repulsive. Straight from a NAZI playbook.

But is it actually desirable? Or is it a scam to get people to contribute much more than they get out? At the same time, this dirtball is overpopulated to a degree that we existential threats.

Try Bluey. Seriously. It's a parenting show disguised as a children's show.

Not yet. Their products still somewhat work, badly, insecurely and wasting their user's time. They will fix that next.

I would be.

The Department of Energy is selling off more than 40,000 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium from the Cold War arsenal to nuclear reactor startups. All of which I’m sure will be thoroughly vetted and monitored, because this is done under the direction of a former board member. Yikes!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wright

Who IS Oklo, Inc. the "private nuclear reactor builder/operator"? Oklo is Sam Altman:

Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

We're in territory where weapons-grade plutonium is being given at fire-sale prices to billionaires who's ethical boundaries include creating their own demand for otherwise unnecessary, high-risk energy projects. Guys like Altman, who get their ideas from Wikipedia articles about Ayn Rand — because they are one rung lower than people who actually READ that garbage.

But I'm sure no inventory of hot nuke metal will ever go missing.

Crap like that has been done before. Always results in massive problems a bit later. One example I remember from something like 35 years ago is Siemens Germany not hiring EEs for a year when they were hiring like half of the new graduates before. I think they had serious problems getting people for something like 10 years after that. Soooo stupid.

What I tell the junior engineers is to make sure to have good skills, real understanding of things and to make sure to understand IT security as well. And in a few years, it will become obvious how crappy AI actually is in any engineering context. They just need to survive until then.

And then there are people that thing this has real value: https://www.acm.org/code-of-et...
Well, not everybody is trying to be a good person.

I think that was the point where it became clear to me that he knows he is peddling crap. Not sure I saw this specific quote, but there were more like it. All FUD, no substance.

I see you never have heard of reliability, security and maintainability. Quite an accomplishment if you have 25 years of respective experience. Of course, if you only write throw-away code, "AI" may actually be good support for that.

I was with you in the first half, but I don't think the "because money" argument is the result of wanting government handouts.

My grandfather was an Italian immigrant, who came to America right before the Great Depression hit. He only got a 9th grade education (some variants of the story say 6th or 8th; suffice it to say he didn't graduate high school), and then he worked for a defense contractor doing machine work. On one income (admittedly 80-hour work weeks were the norm for that income), on a 9th-grade education, he was able to raise three children, have a custom-built house in a then-semi-rural part of the country (that still had public transit to get to and from work), and still save for retirement.

How much money does it take to raise three kids in a custom-built home and save for retirement within two hours of a major city, and how many jobs make that much money reliably, and how many of *those* jobs can be had with a 9th grade education?

Sure, my parents didn't get designer clothes, and only had maybe three family vacations between birth and adulthood, and they didn't eat out frequently....but while there are certainly areas that twentysomethings can be more prudent about, the median family income in 2024 was $83,730, and that usually involves two incomes. 50 years ago, it was $6,600, or $69,150 inflation-adjusted - roughly a 21% increase. Meanwhile, the median home cost $20,264 in 1964, or $212,314 inflation-adjusted, while median house cost in 2024 was $414,361 - a 95% increase.

I haven't even considered the costs for everything else - Even if you want to argue that families usually had only one car instead of two, they cost more than twice as much now. Even if you want to argue that food is different now than it was then, it's also twice as expensive. Even if you want to argue that stay-at-home moms *were* childcare in 1964, the functional need for two working parents means that child care is a requirement that wasn't a need at the time.

So...yeah - I'm not a government-should-pay-for-everything, socialism-but-real-socialism-not-Cuba-or-USSR-socialism leftist, but the math simply makes it completely impossible for a couple in 2025 who isn't in the top 10% of earners to have the life that our grandparents and parents did - even if such a couple is willing to live in a 1600 square-foot home, drive a single car, go on infrequent vacations, live in an average region of the country, and have a daily diet of rice and beans - and if homes were $45K in 1964 against $6,600 median incomes, you can bet that there would be a lot less people in this country, too. ...and yes, I understand that my numbers are USA numbers while TFA is about Finland, but I'm hard pressed to believe that their numbers don't have a simliar trend.

Who cares? Stock market valuation is not an indicator of product quality or whether a company has a future. All it is is an indicator of greed and projections.

Sounds like a mix of AI slop and delusion. Good luck!

The same thing happens for code generation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.090...
Devs think they are about 20% faster, when in reality, they are about 20% slower. Decreased code quality and added vulnerabilities are not counted in that.