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Would nuclear energy research be a good analogy then? Seems like a path we should have kept running down, but stopped bc of the weapons. So we got the weapons b
by jdross 7mo ago
Would nuclear energy research be a good analogy then? Seems like a path we should have kept running down, but stopped bc of the weapons. So we got the weapons but not the humanity saving parts (infinite clean energy)
- shafyy 7mo agoIt's a path we should have never started going down.
- turtlesdown11 7mo ago> Seems like a path we should have kept running down, but stopped bc of the weapons. you mean like the tens of billions poured into fusion research?
- DoughnutHole 7mo agoNuclear advancements slowed down due to PR problems from clear and sometimes catastrophic failure of commercial power plants (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima) and the vastly higher costs associated with building safer plants. If anything the weapons kept the industry trucking on - if you want to develop and maintain a nuclear weapons arsenal then a commercial nuclear power industry is very helpful.
- raincole 7mo agoNuclear energy hasn't been slowed down much, let alone stopped. China has been building new reactors every year for more than a decade and there are >30 ones under construction. The same will go with AI, btw. Westerners' pearl clenching about AI guardrails won't stop China from doing anything.
- throwaway290 7mo agoThey copied LLMs from the west. the more the west does the more they have.