and don't get me wrong. I am not reflexively against nuclear power and one of my major beefs with the militarization of the atom is that it's made nuclear power about a million times harder than it ever needed to be
but just imagine being someone who experienced the initial TMI scare—a child at the time maybe—and being frightened by the accident, and then the place just becomes a tomb after that. and finally it's maybe gonna be recommissioned, finally maybe the TMI reactor can do some good again, and what happens? OpenAI or Microsoft or whoever spreads a lot of bribe money around in Pennsylvania in exchange for a twenty year exclusive deal to power some LLM trash generator.
powering homes? pfft that's not "effective altruism", wasting precious nuclear electricity on the common herd, they just waste it! anyway it builds character to learn to live with brownouts. it's more efficient to channel all that juice into a giant Microsoft-branded forgery machine.
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~Mono 🦄
