It's increasingly looking like if you're young enough most knowledge work will be eaten by LLMs (or the thing that comes next) within your lifetime.
Hopefully we'll see human assisted with AI & induced demand for a good while, but the idea that people work unassisted in knowledge work is gonna go the way of artisan clothing
And Zuckerberg has vowed to pump billions more into developing and releasing more Llama. I believe "Altman declaring AGI is almost here" was peak OpenAI and now I will just have some popcorn ready.
I certainly felt like the use case of interacting directly with spark (through scala) and very low friction visualizations was quite nice. Not that it's hard to get that with jupyter, but batteries included, just click through the UI visualization was better for zeppelin
> making a fusion plant isn't a stepping stone to making a nuclear bomb
In theory a fusion plant can use the neutrons to irradiate the right chemical element to produce Plutonium-239 or Uranium-233.
It has been estimated that each 14.1 MeV fusion neutron could be used to produce up to 0.64 plutonium or 233U atoms [4] assuming a TBR of 1.06. This corresponds to 2.85 kg plutonium per MW-year of DT fusion power production, assuming that all of the neutrons are captured in the blanket.
How would you make a bomb out of a tokamak? It is barely stable enough to generate the little heat required to generate energy, any disruption to that will just put out the reaction it wont explode.
Fusion bombs requires fission bombs as a fuse to have enough heat to explode, fusion reactors wont even come close to that.
The argument made here includes not just that the company should not spend it's resources on things other than profit for the sake of shareholders, but also worries about employees and customers. At least in this article Friedman was advocating for something much more positive than the situation we found ourselves in today
