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@matthewgburgess @lastsaskliner Do you not try to grab a fire extinguisher?
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@matthewgburgess @lastsaskliner All regulations on a currently unregulated domain would be hard to implement: politically, financially, legally. And the implementation of a technical program to regulate would be no less difficult to maintain.
But the lopsided level of despair and profit smell like a fire
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I believe the basic incentives of social media algorithms should be regulated in a well designed manner. Those incentives are so powerful that prescriptive regulation, while very useful for things like age gating adult social media, is unlikely to have significant effects.
The current incentive is to maximize negative short term attention to maintain the most users and ad revenue. This has become a recipie for tribalism and despair.
I would recommend something along the lines of a large tax credit for platforms whose users report improved, or at least neutral, well being trends in correlation with their usage of a platform. This would be matched and funded by a tax on platforms whose users report worsened well being in correlation with their usage. It should be renumerative to improve people's lives despite that having an algorithmic disadvantage.
Self reported well being may be a good general purpose metric that should capture multiple positive and negative effects of social media. Importantly, it also has little to no inherent political content, providing a regulation system without levers for politicians and activists to pull. Other metrics may be superior and it's worthy of examination.
@JonHaidt @matthewgburgess @jordanbpeterson @MikhailaFuller @mattyglesias
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@omas_36 @MattLoszak Can't say I 'love being a cog' but it pays the bills without defrauding investors. It's honest work.
I have a highly tuned BS filter.
Believe me when I say:
Not one of these bubble startups will achieve ANY market penetration.
Or, simply wait and see. It's my wheelhouse.
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What ppl think we're saying:
“We’re the first to build nuclear hardware in a factory.”
This is of course not true.
What we're actually saying:
“We’re the first to build a fully vertically integrated factory that outputs nuclear power plants. Raw materials in, completed modules out.”
Vogtle and Westinghouse rely on subcontracting, working with dozens of suppliers, each with their own factory. This makes final on-site integration a challenge.
PM-1 was the closest thing to full vertical integration in the past. It was made in a single factory (by Martin Company) and deployed as a complete set of modules.
But this was a ~1 MWe system for military.
The Aalo Pod is a 50 MWe system for AI data centers.
Vertical integration to this extent is VERY hard to pull off. It requires a lot of talented engineers, a lot of capital, and a lot of customer demand. Michael is right that failure is more than just a possible outcome.
But for the first time in the 70 year history of nuclear, the right set of conditions are present to make it even remotely possible to pull this off.
If we do, we'll have a holy-grail product: Nuclear that can be deployed predictably, for low cost, anywhere.
The benefit that this would bring to humanity would be immense.
scaryjello@scaryjellomj
@MattLoszak You think HOLTEC hasn't been rolling plates into cylinders for the last 20 years? You think Westinghouse couldn't do that? You will build 100% of 0 reactors a year. you're just looking to cash-in. When's the IPO Matt? Love the haircut. That'll sell reactors. You know nothing
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@omas_36 @MattLoszak You're imagining "century of humiliation" and "good ppl"
let me guess. You've got 6-figures of "karma" on Reddit and born sometime after 1996, right? Y'all know nothing.
Whatever happened with WEC SVP was what we call a scapegoat - making an example. An offering to the horde
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@mjscarangella @MattLoszak BWXT can’t build a microreactor with govt $, Westinghouse SVP in jail for fraud. Enjoy being a cog. Skepticism is fair but you’re stuck yelling at genuine good ppl trying to build something new who don’t just throw their hands up & accept American century of humiliation
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@MattLoszak "Ohhhh we're vertically integrated"
My arse.
You've got a warehouse and you call it a factory. You're a poser.
"vertically integrated" would be any company like BWXT, GE, WEC which has been doing this for 50-years - HAS ACTUALLY SUPPLIED NUCLEAR GRADE COMPONENTS AND FUEL.
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@JDVance Moooommmm, the vice president is calling movie guys “dipshit” online again
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The gunman had anti-ICE messaging carved on the bullets he used. What, precisely, did I get wrong, dipshit?
Jon Favreau@jonfavs
The Vice President is not a reliable source of information. This is now the fifth or sixth time he’s posted a political take contradicted by facts from his own law enforcement agencies.
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But to get to safety we need to TEST, ITERATE, and BUILD FAST. That's how we get to higher efficiency and economic viability too.
Every year millions die from particulate matter plumed from fossil fuel plants. By a recent estimate it's as many as 1 in 5 deaths worldwide!!!
hsph.harvard.edu/climate-health…
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Great to see Aalo Senior Advisor Nick Touran @whatisnuclear featured in this recent documentary, “The Nuclear Revival” produced by @ChannelNewsAsia.
The doc explores a complex topic with human stories. It reinforces what we already know: nuclear energy can safely power humanity’s grandest ambitions.
youtube.com/watch?v=Xn2bn5…

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