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I wish I had more updoots for this effortpost. Well done.

I highly doubt this will come to pass via GenAI.

damn I misrembered the whitepaper, probably because it gave such goldbug vibes otherwise

dunno really, he’s got a lot of threads on HN where hackernews incorrect each other about logistics

I think the dude is just a wonk who happens to have gotten funding

Satoshi is/was a goldbug so it’s an entirely intentional term.

Is this the Flexport(?) guy? They're YC funded I believe.

Blast from the past, we're kinda behind the times here in Sweden

Hidden crypto mine found in Swedish hospital (link in Swedish)

This is hilarious.

Also note the possible veto from advocacy groups who oppose reopening already closed reactors. Say whatever you want about these people but I think they know more about the intricacies of nuclear power plant regulation than some johnny-come-lately startup bro with ideas of stuffing a reactor into a container.

Yeah this isn't the plan.

The plan is to get the stars in for a couple of days in front of a green screen, have them say their lines, then use "AI" to generate the rest of the scene. You want to get rid of all the labor around scouting sets, getting permits, constructing them, lighting them, feeding the crew etc. That's where a big part of the cost of making a movie lies.

Yeah but Three Mile Island? Seriously?

Now it's possible that the MSFT press release gave it a more anodyne name and the press sussed out where it was, but still.

There’s a specific kind of online commentator that’s a carrier of the meme that the public turn against nuclear power was the final nail in the coffin for Western civilization. I don’t have any proof of this, other than cultural. Nuke fondlers tend to be culturally and politically conservative, generally with engineering or science degrees, and seem to pine for the idealized 50s so present in tradwife media nowadays (although nuke love precedes that by decades).

Opposition to nuclear power was sort of a death knell for the ideal of the technocrat.

Now of course nuke enthusiasts tend to be libertarians too, and they run smack into the fact that nuclear is really capital-intensive and expensive to insure. Thus the pipe dream of the inherently safe “container reactor”.

Sweden’s current gov is driven a lot by opposition to all things Green (both the party and the ideas) and pushed for the construction of 10 new reactors. It turns out that the industry has been burned by vacillating govs before and required hard financial guarantees, as well as a iron-clad price floor for electricity, to commit. So the pitch to the public would be: there’s no way you can lower your per-unit power cost for 30 years, and in return you get 10 items widely perceived as ugly and dangerous.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was "arc? whazzat?" when this popped up in my feed. At first I thought it was Paul Graham's wimpy Lisp.