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The tax breaks in the Inflation Recovery Act are crucial to making the deal economically feasible, according to Constellation. They provide a credit for every megawatt hour of nuclear energy produced.
lmao so instead of this funding the energy transition it’s just subsidizing the AI grift
And of course the second tragedy is that the AI is absolute dogshit. They’re not powering an artificial general intelligence that could do useful things like help in running a modern global-scale Project Cybersyn. All this staggering amount of electricity wasted so that Github users don’t need to search Stackoverflow, so that people can say “hey google set a 4 minute timer” in their kitchens instead of hitting a half-dozen buttons on their microwave, so that people can tell Alexa to play Despacito.
You don’t need that for planning and in fact the People’s Commissariat for Energetics’ secret police would send you to super gulag for suggesting such a preposterous thing.
AGI is science fiction so of course not
People also put a lot of emphasis on the “I” in Artificial General Intelligence. It gives us the impression that we will have some kind of contraption with a button on it, and every time you push the button it conjures up a new, distinct digital agent of Albert Einstein. For a long, long time, at best, these things will conjure your average Redditor. People think if we create AGI we can tell computers to compose Mozart, but we’ll be lucky if we get anywhere farther than “I glued my balls to my butthole again.”