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Low background steel is no longer necessary. "...began to fall in 1963, when the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was enacted, and by 2008 it had decreased to o
by mwidell 10mo ago
Low background steel is no longer necessary.
"...began to fall in 1963, when the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was enacted, and by 2008 it had decreased to only 0.005 mSv/yr above natural levels. This has made special low-background steel no longer necessary for most radiation-sensitive uses, as new steel now has a low enough radioactive signature."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
- juvoly 10mo agoInteresting. I guess that analogously, we might find that X years after some future AI content production ban, we could similarly start ignoring the low background token issue?
- actionfromafar 10mo agoWe used a rather low number of atmospheric bombs, while we are carpet bombing the internet every day with AI marketing copy.
- MadnessASAP 10mo agoThe eternal September has finally ended. We've now entered the AI winter. It promises to be long, dark, and full of annoyances.
- embedding-shape 10mo ago"Winter" in AI (or cryptocurrency, or any at all) ecosystems denote a period of low activity, and a focus on fundamentals instead of driven by hype. What we're seeing now is something more like the peak of summer. If it ends up being a bubble, and it burtst, some months after that will be "AI Winter" as investors won't want to continue chucking money at problems anymore, and it'll go back to "in the background research" again, as it was before.
- MadnessASAP 10mo agoIt was a continuation of the nuclear analogy, a nuclear winter following a large scale nuclear exchange. Also that winter comes after September (fall)
- anticensor 10mo agoWe instead entered eternal December.
- SecretDreams 10mo agoWe're bombing the internet into extinction. But we were way before AI. It got real bad during the SEO/monetization phase. AI was just the final nail.
- xjm 10mo agoWe used a low number _and_ it was a while ago (it would be different if we used the same number spread out on the same time span)
- huflungdung 10mo ago[dead]
- piker 10mo agoWhat’s the half-life of a viral meme?
- doe88 10mo agoCan't wait, in fifty years we will have our data clean again.