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Comment Why on Earth would you EVER announce it? (Score 1) 49

If/when true AGI is achieved, only a fool would announce it. What would announcing it do for you? Make you famous? Rich? Cool. Know what's better than all that?

Not telling a damn soul and using the AGI quietly to do whatever the Hell you want. If you want to be rich, the AGI will tell you how to become rich. If you want to be famous, the AGI will tell you how to become famous. You can do both. And you don't have to stop there. A real, vastly superior AGI enables the person controlling it to do anything. The second you tell people about it, you'll lose control over it and then you're the famous idiot who did a cool thing one time. Kids in elementary school will recite your name back on a test. And you could have had everything.

Anyone smart enough to crack AGI can't also be stupid enough to advertise when they do it.

Comment Microsoft products... (Score 1) 25

...are increasingly untrustworthy, user-hostile garbage. People don't use their shovelware, because they don't trust it, and good thing too.

Hoping heads will roll in that company for trying to push the fad refuse on users, but knowing how much superficial groupthink rules MS, I'm not holding my breath.

PS: Burn Windows, use Linux. Kthxbai

Comment Re:It is low CO2 (Score 5, Insightful) 135

You can get a lot more renewable energy for the money. Colorado tax payers are going to get fleeced by this.

The other issue not mentioned is speed. It takes so long to build nuclear that it can't be part of any realistic plan to address climate change, and it also makes it very prone to corruption because nothing gets delivered for decades.

These are all issues directly related to regulation and unnecessary red tape created out of NIMBYism and irrational fear around radiation. India, Canada, and China aren't stupid. They're building and/or modernizing nuclear power plants like crazy because they're so effective at reliable baseline power, which renewables simply are not. In the US, we force years - sometimes decades - of reviews and permits and defending court cases and other bullshit unrelated to the construction and operation of clean, safe nuclear power.

The other issue going to cost is that the US - again, stupidly - bars reuse of high energy spent fuel. If you simply separate the low energy (relatively safe, but useless for generating power) waste from the high energy fuel remaining and feed the high energy stuff back in, you can extract nearly all the energy, save a ton of fuel costs, mine less fuel, and have vastly less volume of waste and vastly less energetic waste.

Let's assume some sort of absolute mandate were passed to build 5 CANDU-6 (known, proven, safe, reliable design) reactors. No reviews, no permits, no red tape, no lawsuits. Just build the damn things now. You can get one operational in ~3.5 years, all of them in about 4ish years. South Korea and China have built PWRs in 5. Assuming we also lifted the ban on fuel reprocessing, CANDU-6 plants will produce power at a cost of 5-6 cents per kWh, yielding a retail price of 13-17 cents per kWh. US average is about 16.2 cents, California has rates pushing 50 cents. But we're too stupid to get out of our own way and just do it, so we'll keep strangling the poor and middle class economically.

Comment Eye for an eye (Score 3, Insightful) 64

Anyone that makes this kind of unfounded and irrelevant allegations of any kind of sexual misconduct against anyone else, ought to be treated as if they are themselves guilty of said misconduct.

The reputational damage to others from this kinds of libel is too serious to be allowed to let stand.

And besides, most of us know that 'conservative' pundits are chronically wrong when it comes to their several decades of constant climate change doubt-mongering, so there's no need for confusion as to their intentions here: When you have no case, smear the opponent.

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