We will secure energy dominance by dumping even more money and resources into a technology that is already straining our power grid. But don’t worry. The LLM will figure it all out by reciting the Wikipedia page for Fusion Power.

AI is expected to make cutting-edge simulations run “10,000 to 100,000 times faster.”

Turns out it’s not good to assume that literally every word that comes out of a tech billionaire’s mouth is true. Now everyone else thinks they can get away with just rattling off numbers where their source is they made it the fuck up. I still remember Elon Musk saying a decade ago that he could make rockets 1,000 times cheaper, and so many people just thought it was going to happen.

We need scientists and engineers. We do not need Silicon Valley billionaire visionary innovator genius whizzes with big ideas who are pushing the frontiers of physics with ChatGPT.

We don’t have a choice, give full control to Skynet.

Only it’s not Skynet, it’s not AGI, it’s just LLMs doing things far beyond what they were designed to do, with accidents happening because we imparted agency and intelligence on something that didn’t have it. It would almost be better if it was AGI, because at least then we could sort of blame it. This is our own stupidity, nothing more.

It’s infrastructure week ya’ll

By 60 days from now, the DoE must produce a list — “at least 20 science and technology challenges of national importance” in advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear fission and fusion — yes that’s more vibe nuclear — something quantum, and semiconductors.

And by “biotechnology”, I presume this administration means “eugenics”, if not some other form of medical pseudoscience.

Probably more reliable than in listening to these morons make up their science off the top of their pointy heads.