# Regulate It Like Nuclear Power, My Ass **URL:** \ **Category:** Random\ **Created:** [May 19, 2023, 10:35pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/regulate-it-like-nuclear-power-my-ass/579 "2023-05-19T22:35:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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Sorry, just have to share this particular rant a little more: > So, I hear that Sam Altman was justifying AI regulation using nuclear power regulation as an example. > > Nuclear power regulation, huh? > > Well, if the aim is to crush implementation of the technology right out of the gate, leaving our descendants to curse our dull-minded idiocy, blithering superstitionism, and complete lack of anything resembling foresight, as they labor like peasants on their degrowth-enabled community subsistence farms in the People’s Republic of Carbotopia, that should do just nicely. > > After all, who could possibly _imagine_ that a minimal-pollution carbon-free potentially-cheap source of high-grade energy might be _useful_ in these days of crisis and brouhaha if only they got out of the fuckin’ way. > > Seriously, anyone who uses the nuclear regulatory process as a positive example, regardless of context, should be banned from having any of their opinions about anything taken seriously thenceforth on general principle. > > No, Mister Safety-Fetish, I can’t tell you what’s likely to be coming down the pipe that AI development might help us with. > > Way back in the day of the original nuclear regulation fight, I probably couldn’t have told you that your dumbass stance was gonna broil your grandchildren, either. Learn to beware and respect the unknown unknowns before they turn into the known skullfuckings.