Because that's what the people who made all of those rules decided to call themselves.

> we'll just remove them or de-solder or whatever

If we continue giving money to people who build malware into the products, the malware will eventually be baked in deeply enough that the rest of the device will refuse to operate if it can't phone home to the ministry of truth or wherever.

That is inevitable. Too many people ship only on price and we’ll never reach sufficient mass

Maybe in the future we'll be making thankless water heaters out of GPU's so they can kick on when there's demand for heat.

Because it has the word nuclear nearby and we'll be surprised at how ignorant our regulators can be, or because it'll turn out to be less safe than we think and it'll get red taped to death like fission did, or some non regulatory reason?

There are fundamental reasons why fusion, at least the DT variety, will be more expensive than fission. It has to do with inherently low volumetric power density of DT fusion reactors. ITER is 400x worse than a PWR; ARC is 40x worse. So, the reactor itself becomes much larger and, because it's also more complex, much much more expensive. The other putative advantages of fusion cannot make up for this. And fission itself is too expensive, so DT fusion loses to a loser. It's a double loser.

If you want to see where energy will come from in a deregulated environment, look at Texas. New grid capacity there is solar and batteries. Even gas isn't being installed much; the Texas state government put down $7.2B to fund more gas capacity yet this money has been mostly spurned, I think < $400M has been taken. New nuclear is completely out of the picture there.

Because most plans for it still involve attaching a giant steam boiler to turn the heat it produces into electricity and that bit alone will cost more than renewable alternatives.

Agreed.

Call me ignorant, but I’d rather we focus on stuff like increasing photovoltaic cell efficiency (and possibly cost-efficiency) by the 40%-60% we’re leaving on the table keeping them fully loaded and cooking.

Simple physics upgrades, like rotating cones, or lines of panels to swap with each other in Arizona-parking-lot conditions, can take us further, faster, and cheaper.

Nuclear is only safe after and during spending a bunch of money to keep it that way.

That makes me uncomfortable, because we’ve never had more instability in my lifetime, as far as “wildly important things not being addressed”.

Or just orders of magnitudes more than expensive than paving solar and batteries everywhere. Also a juicy missile target.

Because it’s going to be a ludicrously complicated, massive machine. Those are expensive to build and maintain

Maybe it'll be a model running on a quantum computer that points us towards high temperature superconductivity, which would simplify the plasma confinement problem and unlock fusion for us.

I think your take is historically accurate. Although one does wonder how long we'll be able to get away with keeping the pedal to the metal. It might be worth taking a moment to install a steering wheel. Rumor has it there are hazards about.

Agreed, nostr makes a lot of sense when you read about it and then you go there... Once.

Anthropic's model, Claude, comes in three sizes: Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus. Opus 4.5 is the newest.

I feel like it should have at least one reference which is entirely unintelligible to us cave dwellers from 2025.

> Waiting until your gradient phasor is fully unwound is a waste of whuffie

...or some such.

Isn't that true of everything else also? Facts about real things are the result of sampling reality several times and coming up with consistent stores about those things. The accuracy of those stories is always bounded by probabilities related to how complete your sampling strategy is.