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He would not have succeeded in making a real reactor even with AI, because AI can't magically give you a large quantity of uranium metal! JFC the AI hysteria i
by redsocksfan45 3mo ago
He would not have succeeded in making a real reactor even with AI, because AI can't magically give you a large quantity of uranium metal! JFC the AI hysteria is unreal.
- garyfirestorm 3mo agoprompt -> LLM -> flying car should be just around the corner guys!
- IncandescentGas 3mo ago> succeeded in making a real reactor The concern here is not if an amateur attempt to make a reactor, hack a bank, bioengineer a medicine/poison is successful or not. Interactive and instructive access to some forms of knowledge used to come with discretion along side instruction. Yes, perhaps your swearing at me in this context is a little hysterical
- gs17 3mo agoI don't think the concern should really be "would he make a reactor successfully?", but "would he make an even larger mess than his pile of radioactive materials amounted to?".
- toraway 3mo agoThis just seems like a not great example to make that point though. Since whatever Claude tells the kid looking to build a reactor or even bomb is almost certainly going to be more grounded and professional than: Step 1. Obtain pliers Step 2. Obtain 300 discarded smoke detectors Step 3. Start yanking! Instead it would send them on a wild goose chase for unobtainable isotopes, centrifuges, heavy water, etc where the biggest risk is probably getting reported to the police by some chemical or industrial equipment supplier. Which is a better outcome compared to contaminating their home with radiation and exposing anyone they interact with. You'd maybe get a sketchy but near-viable plan that could be dangerous if asked for a dirty bomb, but there the danger would more be the conventional explosives and not where to source radioisotopes, as it was already common knowledge that most residential smoke detectors contained americium until recently.