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Three Mile Island was the worst nuclear accident in US history. Was mainly caused by poor design of human feedback systems which caused operational confusion and lead to a catastrophic failure.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 month ago (2 children)

!fuck_[email protected]

Seriously, we need the less carbon-emitting plants to replace the dirty coal ones, not come online just to power the AI hype :smh:

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If/when the ai hype train crashes, it would already be online and therefore a good argument can be made to redirect the power to the grid instead of the then-defunct project

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Maybe true. But if we have increased energy demand it might as well be nuclear.

Halting ai development might be nice according to many people, but we cant make that happen. Fraud alone is magnitudes more rampant. Its here to stay and we have to deal with it. I think this is a big win.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AI better cure cancer if we're using this much energy on it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The development of ACP_196 did use AI for huge portions of the raw sequencing and simulation, for what thats worth...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

for what that is worth

A lot if you ask me. Unfortunately this will mostly be LLMs and image generators using this power probably.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

and user activity analyzer and recommendation systems, when looking at copilot

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (61 children)

If you hate nuclear energy because you think it's dangerous or polluting, that is as dumb as choosing to drive instead of taking the train for the same reasons.

Nuclear energy is one of the methods of generating electricity with the smallest environmental impact and also much, much safer than the alternatives. The number of nuclear accidents can be counted on one hand, while the number of people who have died from cancer from coal power plants is conservatively estimated to be in the millions.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow Bethesda is really going all out to promote Fallout.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

bro just one more ~~lane~~ power plant bro, bro I swear just one more and it'll fix the ~~traffic~~ energy demands bro

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Let's save money and have AI control the Nuclear Power Plant, see what happens >:]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That’s an episode of the original Star Trek.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Ohh amazing what happen when corpos need something done lol

Fuck u peasants, sucks to suck

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