Also wasn't he a safety AI guy and not a dev?

Wait which version of reality of 2024 are you referencing?

I don't care if he puts out the demo of all demos and promises data to be kept private, Facebook/Meta has always gone the route of eventually collecting and using all possible data legally available about an individual. Can't support that.

I'm fortunate enough to have access to a very large academic library and paper system but *still* use sci-hub due to the ease of use. Why log in with multiple phone security checks or submit long library request forms when I can simply copy and paste.

They could at least have labs free from bureaucracy like a little Skunk Works or Google X, but these seem rare as well. Google seems to cancel anything with promise.

No scientific articles, fancy youtube CGI doesn't count.

Most of the companies are quite open about their progress and plans. Helion is not one of them.

Some exit signs also use tritium to glow in the dark...

Agree OP was overly dismissive, but the chemical toxicity of the blanket is probably more concerning (lead / beryllium) than the tritium going into the atmosphere - few grams of tritium dispersed over many miles with a half life of a little over a decade isn't exactly Chernobyl.

Tritium isn't really indicative of leaks, it seeps through everything. It's even present "naturally" through cosmic ray bombardment of water.

As you point out this is probably less radioactive than a banana.

I would love to lobby for the NRC to apply their rules to all goods and commerce. Only then would people understand the lunacy of the NRC when it takes two hours of scanning to enter the grocery store and complete the paperwork for removing a banana from a storage cask to a lead lined basket.

Recently read Robert Zubrin's upcoming book "The Case for Nukes" where he discusses how various green groups in the 60s used donated oil money to protest for more regulation. The Sierra Club justified the mortality of this by claiming the then too cheap nuclear power would lead to unnecessary economic and human growth which would then harm nature.

Exactly. Any new technology comes out and the naysayers all come out of the woodwork. This *as is* would be useful with a cheap energy source like future fission/fusion projects, and I'm sure things can be dramatically improved.

You would think with all that time and money they would have a robot climbing up and down stairs and recognizing objects on the floor. The robot you could buy today is nearly the same as the one they started with.

If you're not inhaling it or drinking it, what's the problem? These are typically very thin layers anyway, not like lead soldering in plumbing or flashing around chimneys. Mandating recycling would likely go a long way. You likely have lots of these scary compounds in your flat screen TV in similar quantities.

I still admire the Musk companies and what is being accomplished, but I'll admit my view of him as a man has greatly diminished over the past few years. Primarily he's highly vindictive and can't take criticism.

That being said him switching parties is hardly a surprise when CA elected officials tweet "fuck musk" and attempt to make life miserable for his companies. The auto unions bought Biden out so any discussion of electric vehicles cannot mention Tesla, and Tesla was the only company not invited to the Whitehouse. Biden openly mocks Musk. Here you have the left childishly fighting musk who used to be an ally, a vindictive musk, and the right welcoming him to TX / FL with open arms. No surprise what happens next.

Aside - the left needs to be more openly pro-progress as this is likely what can unify both sides (aside from the "far" constituents). I thought this post put it quite well, though I'd prefer "forward party" over "up party":

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffasterplease.substack....

We spend far more per capita compared to other countries and get far less in return; throwing more money at the problem is not the solution.