"move toward cooperation", China is relentlessly predatory and routinely attempts to globally dominate multiple industries. I don't think the rest of us need to cooperate with that.

"momentum they have should have everyone in the West shit their pants", let's see some cites. They are far, far behind.

China is learning that there's a long road ahead just to replicate the equipment that's been available for a decade. Obviously they need to get started on it, especially since there's "a bill now moving through Congress would cut off from ASML sales and servicing by statute", but they won't reach the state of the art for many years even if they steal it as usual.

That guy is a doom monger who makes his living bashing AI and I don't believe a word he says.

We're still in early days with these LLM's and AI in general. There's huge potential and very large demand for it, that's the reason for the infrastructure boom. The companies that could benefit the most from AI haven't had time to properly integrate it, so naturally there are growing pains. Anthropic and OpenAI are themselves just fledgling companies trying to grapple with success.

Meanwhile, token prices have fallen dramatically.

"According to Ramp’s enterprise spending data, the average cost per million tokens across major providers fell from roughly $10 to $2.50 in a single year. Epoch AI’s research suggests that inference costs are dropping at rates approaching 200x per year when accounting for both pricing and efficiency improvements."

"The pattern here echoes the early days of cloud computing, when providers offered aggressively low pricing to capture market share, then gradually introduced reserved instances, tiered pricing, and consumption-based billing as usage matured. The AI pricing cycle appears to be compressing that same evolution into a much shorter timeframe."

https://www.artefact.com/blog/...

But alongside that people are now deploying agentic AI that burns through tokens far more rapidly. Companies have even been incentivizing employees to burn tokens. This is all going to even out in the coming years.

Not all old people are conservatives, and even the ones who are don't deserve to die.

The reaction was necessary and proportionate. The situation was fluid. Monitoring had been lost, so it was not known exactly how bad it was. Then containment buildings started exploding.

To this day, much of that area is not decontaminated. It's not safe to live there, unless you are very careful. Which in practice means children can't live there, the elderly can't live there, and anyone would be living on edge the whole time. Repeated attempts to decontaminate the area have failed, and there is no known solution, at any cost.

That's one of the reasons why nuclear power can't get insurance, and the government has to cover it.

Only if you simply ignore the people who died in the evacuation that resulted from it. Their lives matter too, at least to me.

I see your point, but it sounds like an expensive way to compensate for crap hazardous material handling.

The nuclear disaster killed people too. I don't really see the value in comparing the two anyway, both need to be addressed.

The difference is that the copyright owners can't do much about a magnet link or The Pirate Bay, and even if they could there is no money to recover. Twitter, on the other hand, has a lot of money.

Twitter is already being sued for copyright infringement by music companies.

More relevant is the fact that they were only able to remove 90% of the long term dangerous material. If they can't separate the remaining 10% then either they have to store the whole lot anyway, or they have to very carefully examine every bit of waste, all different shapes and sizes, to determine what is safe and what isn't.

Also note that even if they remove 100% of the long lived stuff, the shorter term dangerous material is going to need to sit in a pool for decades before they can throw it in landfill.

Don't underestimate the damage done though. Whole towns displaced and ultimately lost, because attempts to decontaminate them failed. Lives ruined and not adequately compensated. Lots of farmers were badly hit too, losing land and having trouble selling their produce. Ditto the fishermen.

Total cost is looking like it will be around half a trillion Euros, but they have fallen behind their schedule for decommissioning the plant. NHK did a documentary about it on YouTube if you are interested in the problems they are facing.

Calling France's nuclear a success is ignoring the very large costs. Your link is flawed, it doesn't properly account for what the French have paid to keep their nuclear programme going. It's hard to say for sure because the civilian side is tangled up with the military side, but it's so wildly expensive and unprofitable that they had to nationalize the operator, EDF, some years back. EDF has been saying that any new plants take a minimum of 20 years to build, after all the legal and planning issues are resolved.

France is now seeing power shortages due to the hot weather forcing nuclear plants offline, and they are regularly seeing low demand for the power due to cheaper renewables in neighbouring countries (their grids are all interconnected).

To be fair it has got their CO2 emissions down, but that was then and this is now. The fleet is reaching end of life and getting more expensive to keep running. They are going to have to decide how much more money to throw at it, when there are better alternatives. My guess is quite a lot, because it's critical to their weapons programme.

8k followers isn't even that much. My shitty YouTube channel where I walk around places has over 1,500.

It's more to do with the type of content and how monetizable it is. It sounds like she has brands paying her for some coverage.

Yes, it's worth remembering that the German constitution guarantees freedom of speech, and the ECHR also guarantees freedom of expression.