AI vibecoded nuclear plant. What could go wrong? You just need to add "no nuclear meltdown" at the end of the prompt.
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I’ll worry about ‘AI’ when something that can legitimately be mistaken as intelligence is demonstrated.
In the meantime, these explosively imprecise, statistically luke-warm, grey goo extrusion sphincters need to be exclusively opt-in, and not forced on anyone who hasn’t explicitly consented to a lobotomy.
I mean, it's not like we have turned away from nuclear power. There are still dozens of new plants being build every year worldwide.
Chernobyl didn't turn the world against nuclear powerplants forever so it's probably fine.
Did someone say creating fake news in masses to scare people away from genAI?
Count me in!
Are these "top ai researchers" real people?
These top AI researchers are just investment bankers. So no, not real people
People haven't paid attention to the warnings from the Dune movie.
Not every country was bothered by Chernobyl. The winners will keep using AI.
Winners don't use AI.
On the other hand, it would be a smart tactical move to start the Butlerian Jihad early enough before it turns into a potential extintion event.
Already used in ukraine war, palestenian genocide rtc. See autonomous drones.
We should already be against AI but mainstream media and class consciousness are suppressed to serve our billionaire overlords
Also in the genocide in Sudan. They killed a whole city, Al Faschir or El Fasher. Over 70,000 people disappeared in one night when the city was invaded. Most of them are probably dead - what remained were blood puddles visible on satellite images.
There is a detailed, very high quality report in the renowned German newspaper DIE ZEIT that tried to reconstruct what happened:
https://www.zeit.de/2026/16/kriegsverbrechen-al-faschir-sudan-darfur-rsf/komplettansicht
It is, after the report of WWII allies reaching German concentration camps, and the testimonies from Hiroshima, among the worst and most depressing things I have ever read.
Seems like Ukraine needed money, and sold drones to Saudi Arabia. And Saudi gave the weapons to the Arab side of the civil war. Which included the forces which besieged and destroyed Al Fashir.
If AI was perhaps a neutral technology before, this is certainly not the case any more.
Remain indoors.
buttlerian jihad?
I feel like one could legitimately run on this platform at this point.
the founding father of modern 'civilisation'
Could it please happen now? Would really like it if it could happen before the world ends.
ai could con ai zombies into getting vasectomies first, that would be cool.
I don't think it will be Chernobyl or 9/11 level, but I do think an epic fuckup with potential casualties is going to set AI back ten years. And maybe by then we'll have figure out our shit enough to make it not destroy society.
It's the same cycle you see with deregulation. Dereg good, until so much dereg that something epically fucks up. Then it's "why did no one prevent this" and regulations are back again.
Then it’s “why did no one prevent this” and regulations are back again.
then the regulations need to be stronger and the guillotines sharper.
Wait, so its not the actual event and ensuing casualties that have AI researchers spooked, but the fact that it might cause the public to turn against AI?
Watch thiel, huang, karp etc videos. As far as they are concerned we are irrelevant at best, more accurately we are in the way, and we are a waste of resources that should belong to ai.
It's like responding to your employee losing an arm, ripped off by your tiger, and saying "I'm never going to financially recover from this."
"Sir, our model has caused several explosions around the globe resulting in hundreds of thousands dead and people rioting against us."
"No! MY PROFIT!"
(I wish I could add an /s.)
I miss sarcasm and satire
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There is a key difference, that makes the genie impossible to bottle: People can run local AI on their own machines. Fans of nuclear power can't easily build nuclear plants in their backyard. A pity, the world could use more nuclear energy. 😔
Anyhow, I am looking forward to someday using frontier-grade AI on my PC. Just need the AI bubble to pop, so that I can afford the terrabytes of memory that would be needed to comfortably run it.
Hello enemy of all life on earth, how are you today?
Good. If people had nuclear in their backyard, we’d be a “junkyard nightmare” and a “dirty bomb hellscape.”
Wait… how do you imagine a world where there's demand for frontier grade AI but also that the bubble has popped such that there's not demand for the chips to run frontier grade AI?
I'm really confused.
The internet survived the Dotcom bubble. Many businesses died, but some survived. The glut of hardware from the dead will end up in the hands of individuals, upstart companies, and the corporations that outlived their peers.
In any case, I believe the definition of frontier AI will change, as would the hardware. My build is based on what local AI is available today, with some wiggle room left over. I believe that it is around 2030, when DDR6 and other major shifts are likely to happen, that we will see the definitions change.
In any case, a Q4 of GLM 5.2 is about 460ish gigs of VRAM+RAM. While expensive, that ain't out of reach for an AI hobbyist.
The internet survived the Dotcom bubble. Many businesses died, but some survived. The glut of hardware from the dead will end up in the hands of individuals, upstart companies, and the corporations that outlived their peers.
And that resulted in there being 5 websites with fewer people self-hosting so I don't know why you use that as an example of decentralization.
If there is a general demand for AI after the AI bubble like there was for the internet post dotcom bubble then people will always gravitate toward the most convenient way to get it which is through the cloud powered by someone else super computer.
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The majority of the world is already against AI. These jackasses need to pull their head out of their ass and come up for air.
These jackasses need to pull their head out of their ass and come up for air.
preferably not. I want them to suffocate.
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Men of Iron moment?
Sounds like what Alex Karp is saying to retail investors. A lot more people got killed by AI than by Chernobyl by the way.
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