World Nuclear Association Welcomes Microsoft Corporation as Newest Member
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Microsoft joins the World Nuclear Association, sparking discussions about the potential implications of big tech involvement in nuclear energy and concerns about their software reliability.
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Let's imagine, for your sake, if Elon, Bezos, Gates and Zuck, hell, maybe Branson - they all had a handful of bespoke nukes. Starship becomes Startshit, or whatever clever branding the tech bros come up for their "private enterprise physical defense AI-driven atomic-oriented energy constraint circumvention systems" that can guarantee corporate continuation in the event of micro-scale nuclear warfare.
(this is literally the plot to Fallout, IIRC).
so okay, now they're "superpowers," somehow, in this fictional world where the instant any of these organizations begin the path to centrifugal enrichment toward weapons-grade material, the IAEA and the DOE and nine thousand other detection agencies are just going to allow it?
HN used to be a bastion, the place you'd lurk because you'd only keep learning. Network effect + time just middles the Bell.
So no, there's no need for some "censorship" when the masses can recognize and downvote stupidity. The system is working.
Not bug, feature.
https://youtu.be/FxIUs-pQBjk?t=48s
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