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Comment Re:The barrels were meant to leak (Score 1) 31

The unsettling part is that a corroded barrel is not necessarily a failed design.

Unsettling because it's not the radioactivity levels in the vicinity of the barrels that is of concern*. It's the solubility of various radionuclides in sea water and the subsequent diffusion over large distances that concerns me. Glassification of spent fuel and other byproducts would tend to confine this stuff, keeping them in one place.

*See https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

Comment correct incentives (Score 1) 132

Well, there have to be correct incentives for someone to be in software, I got into it because I liked the idea of being able to control a machine, to be able to tell a computer what to do and it would do it.

Would I have the same interest in it 40 years ago if controlling the computer meant writing in human language that is imprecise and nuanced and receiving back code that I couldn't start to comprehend? Maybe, maybe not, I am not sure actually. If there was still a way for me to do this without the AI I probably would have gone that route but how many people today would do it? I mean people are telling Agents to write their letters for them, not code, just letters. People are telling agents to do all sorts of things, all of which probably saves some time, make some errors, creates some problems while solving others, it is just that none of it is actually understood by the user.

How many AI users understand how any of it works? But that was the point, to understand how the thing works to be able to control it.

It is similar to car mechanics, people who like to tinker with cars, how interesting is it to tinker with a car where you are not allowed to understand half of it and you cannot fix most of it, if something breaks you have to order an entire replacement part because it has a built in computer interface.

Comment Re:Seriously... (Score 1) 366

Here is a little TL;DR on how argumentation works:

1. make your claim
2. back your claim with evidence

If you do #1 without #2, you are not going to convince anyone that isn't a mouth-breathing window-licker like yourself.

It's not my responsibility to prove your claim for you. That's your responsibility, and if you were not a mouth-breathing window-licker, you would already know that and wouldn't just post additional baseless weapons-grade bullshit as some kind of reinforcement of your argument.

Let me give you an example of how fucking stupid you are: quotes of Democrats, specifically the Obama Administration saying exactly what you are asking for:

America’s “red line” regarding Iran is that Tehran does not attain nuclear weapons, US President Barack Obama said on Thursday.

Today, because America negotiated from a position of strength and principle, we have stopped the spread of nuclear weapons in this region. Because of this deal, the international community will be able to verify that the Islamic Republic of Iran will not develop a nuclear weapon.

Furthermore, here is a direct quote of the House Minority Leader (Hakeem Jeffries, who will be Speaker of the House soon enough) giving you exactly the quote you want:

“Iran is a bad actor and must be aggressively confronted for its human rights violations, nuclear ambitions, support of terrorism and the threat it poses to our allies like Israel and Jordan in the region,” Jeffries said. “However, absent exigent circumstances, the Trump administration must seek authorization for the preemptive use of military force that constitutes an act of war.”

I know none of this is going to convince you - you probably aren't even going to read it in favor of compulsively complying with more unsubstantiated horseshit because you are a propagandized hayseed incapable of any intellectual objectivity. I'm hoping other people read this so they can laugh at you for being so ridiculously uninformed, or just a pathologically lying asshat hiding behind anonymity because your lies are so easy to see through.

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