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"AI will replace all jobs" is the new "safe nuclear energy is only 10 years away"
by paulftw 10y ago
"AI will replace all jobs" is the new "safe nuclear energy is only 10 years away"
- intopieces 10y agoSafe nucelear energy is here, and has been for years. The number of people who have died from exposure to coal dust is far higher than those who have been harmed by nuclear anything.
- paulftw 10y agoI'm referring to promises of reliable, cheap and zero waste cold fusion or plasma or whatever reactors that were promised to 100% replace fossil fuels. A handful of reactors here and there while an awesome achievement in itself doesn't really meet the expectations people of the sixties had for the year 2000. Other analogies I considered using but was too lazy to mention in my comment were jet packs, space tourism, cure for cancer and HIV. (and you could say all of these have also been delivered... to some extent)
- pitt1980 10y agoI don't get the reference nuclear energy appears to be the safest energy option, and has been for many years now
- jimlawruk 10y agoFukushima is pretty recent. Nuclear is indeed relatively safe but not fail-proof.