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Cake day: December 10th, 2024

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  • There are no trustworthy LLMs. They don’t know it understand what they’re saying - they’re literally just predicting words that sound like they match what it was taught. It’s a only barely smarter than a parrot, and it has no idea how to research anything or tell facts from made-up bullshit. You’re wasting your time by trying to force it to do something it’s literally incapable of doing.

    You’re better off researching them the hard way; check primary sources and then check the credibility of those sources.









  • Well I mean you had to go the the kitchen and then look around in the cabinet for the yellow pages. Then you would realize you had five of them, and would say “why the hell do we have five phone books?” Then you’d their out the old ones, only to realize they were all outdated. Then you’d ask your family if they knew where the current one is, and it turns out that it’s propping up the short end of the old couch in the basement. Then you’d need to go get it, but since somebody dumped old leftovers in the trash (this was before recycling) they’re all gross. So you had to go grab a suitably thick replacement, and figure that the table of contents book from the 1982 encyclopedia set you’ve always had would work. You after your 3rd trip up and down the stairs you’ve finally got the phone book but can’t remember why, but while you have it you decide to order a pizza, then throw the book in the cabinet where they go. Two days later you find the phone number you needed in the first place, written on the back of an envelope.






  • Except for the fact that you can use the Uranium 233 as fuel itself, and you can’t make weaponizable plutonium out of it. Sure you’ve still got the waste problem, but the thorium reactor produces less waste than an equivalent uranium reactor.

    The whole reason it was never developed was because uranium had been developed for the use of nuclear weapons to begin with, so they already had all that work done and then they segued that into power production. They would have to do a lot of research and development, which costs money that nobody wanted to spend, for a program with no military purpose and therefore the government cared a lot less about it. Because we live in fucking Post World War 2 America, and if the military budget can’t be tapped for it then the government can’t be bothered.

    That said, the petroleum industry is probably more responsible. They sure fought tooth and claw against the development of renewables for decades on end. Gawd forbid the rich assholes at the top have one fewer million dollars they’ll never be able to spend in their bank accounts.

    As usual, greed and power are making things worse for everybody. But hey you go ahead and believe it’s because the radioactive waste is the problem.