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Agreed, and to add: it cost NuScale half a billion dollars to get their design approved, for which the application was 12,000 pages long in addition to ~2 milli
by MostlyStable 3y ago
Agreed, and to add: it cost NuScale half a billion dollars to get their design approved, for which the application was 12,000 pages long in addition to ~2 million pages of supporting documents[0].
[0]https://archive.is/cmHXQ https://archive.is/cmHXQ
- zarzavat 3y agoIt’s fair enough to require that kind of diligence for a new design, given the extreme consequences of failure. Half a billion dollars is not much relative to the cost of a catastrophic accident which would be an order of magnitude more, or two. The problem is not the cost of design but rather the cost of deploying a proven design.
- username332211 3y agoA 12 thousand page application and 2 million pages of supporting documentation is not diligence, it's circus. You can write that sort of documents, but nobody will read all of it and understand it. Would anyone even notice if the documents involved contained a few paragraphs T-Rex erotica hidden in them? Hell, would anyone notice if you crammed the entire text of "A Billionaire Dinosaur Forced Me Gay" in there? If you have any doubt about it, observe that Microsoft wants to use an LLM to generate the application documents.