if it wasn't so depressing, it would be funny that most scifi predicting humanity's doom because of AI couldn't imagine the AI in question would be so comically mediocre & dumb we're scorching what remains of the Earth to fuel chatbots that can't accurately count how many "L" there are in a word
Meanwhile, in the department of headlines as condensed dystopian novels www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The Three Mile Island Nuclear plant, home of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, would restart under a deal in which Microsoft purchases all its power.
If anything convinces me to follow my passions and create whatever the fuck I want for myself and reimagine my identity, its the full of shit self confidence everyone in charge of this seems to have. Like. Don't have to worry about personal long term consequences as much.
If there’s one thing that gives me hope about Pennsylvanians being so anti-nuclear (specially because of the Three Mile Island incident) is that I don’t see this going over well with the locals in the slightest. Though I truly don’t have the words for true idiocy that is this idea.
I mean, I'd rather this than another coal or gas plant, but for such a pointless purpose when we should be shifting away from polluting energy for our own sake is wild
All that for for a computer program that is bad at basic math.
Worth noting that the plant didn't close because of the disaster, it operated for forty years just fine after that and closed in 2019 because it wasn't financially viable. Microsoft is offering to pay for 100% of the electricity so it could reopen
they are opening a huge power plant, a NUCLEAR POWER PLANT: for, a, bot.
Currently trying to weight which is worse between that and the tech bros reopening coal power plants to mine bitcoins... 🫠