It's S&S, not Subscribe and get the lowest possible price on every shipment. Amazon offers a slight break in price if you subscribe, and even don't require a second purchase. It is a convenient way to regularly get items that need replenishment, and Amazon lets you know before the next shipment so you can cancel or skip as needed. If you don't like the new price, you're free to cancel and use another option to get your item.
Amazon has a number of practises I think are shady, but this isn't one of them.
so some coders are becoming modern day Luddites
True but too simplified. The Luddites had an entirely different motivation: The fact that factories now employed women and children at very low rates meant that the men lost their status in the family as bread winners and head of household. That was a major social disruption, which we don't have with AI.
I'd compare it more to teamsters or wagoners when cars became common. Your job is threatened by a different way of doing the same thing, a way to which your skills don't cleanly transition. Some choose to pick up the new tech, some want the old ways to persist.
In the end, coachmen became chauffeurs, because rich people prefer to be driven around oder driving themselves, no matter if it's a horse or an engine doing the pulling. But much fewer teamsters and wagoners became truck drivers.
Good points and analogy. It will be interesting to see the social disruption caused by AI; ad it may disproportionately impact lower skill/wage employees. One of my clients provided medical reviews of physicals and had a number of data entry clerks who processed the incoming paperwork and several doctors who reviewed it. AI should be bl to greatly speed up the process, flagging missing information and informing the sender of it, entering data from either the electronic or secure fax copy, flag any anomalies and send the electronic record to the doctor for review. An office full of data entry clerks can be replaced by a few people to monitor teh system to ensure it is working properly and respond to customer inquiries. Data entry may be one of the skills that simply is not transferable and thus lower wage or off shored job opportunities will disappear. My client's jobs were actually pretty good if low wage, since they included benefits such as healthcare, PTO and a matching 401K in addition to a living wage.
Except for the fact that you do not want weapon grade plutonium floating around, you would not make "MOX" anyway.
Lets just agree that the whole idea is retarded from about 30 angles of viewpoints
Certainly. There’s enough crazy in the idea for everyone.
and I can relive those heady days of my youth, playing Trek on a PDP-11/70 (and wasting copious amounts of tractor-feed paper)!
We used to find a remote terminal - with paper and an acoustic coupler to play Trek. By remote, I mean hidden away in the bowels of a university building where the computer police wouldn’t find us an explain that computer s weren’t for playing games. We also learned that as long as you had 1 cent in your uni account you could log in and stay on as long as you wanted so end of term games lasted for tag team hours. Fun times. When we saw the first remote terminal with a screen instead of paper it was like a whole new world.
The WP article is wrong.
Wikipedia wrong? I am shocked, shocked.
Be aware that the Luddites were not all about being anti-technology. The main concern of the Luddites was exploitation of people in the factories and mines of the growing Industrial Revolution and the general state of poverty and misery it caused for most people while a few became incredibly wealthy. Things were pretty dire for a 100 years or so.
Does this sound familiar to you?
The Luddites were right.
Correct. Technology was merely the face of what was happening, as is AI. History may not repeat but it does rhyme.
You know what I hear here? Somebody that cannot perform without LLMs (or with them, but then it is harder to spot) aggressively defending his deeply defective crutch.
Are modern tools crutches or merely the next step in software design? Software design has evolved from programing in 0 and 1's to having a lot of tools and languages to make it easier to code, AI may just be the next tool that programmers use to create code.
GDPR.
Could fall under the significant public interest exemption, and relevant EU/German law.
then designing a plant to use it as a fuel component makes little long term sense. It makes sense. As it is the only way to "destroy" the plutonium, or in other words: get rid of it.
However, the question is not is it a good way to dispose of it, but is it a commercially viable way. Building the plant to reprocess it into fuel. will no doubt be capital intensive and expensive to run, so unless there is enough demand to make it profitable or at least break even it makes no sense to go down that road. The other question is, if there is enough demand for it, what is the projections for how long existing supplies will last. It's strictly a simple cost/benefit/ROI question for commercial companies. The only way to make it viable may be for teh government to foot much of teh reprocessing costs and ensure there will be enough to last the anticipated useful life of reactors built to burn it.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. -- Confucius
