Back to episode — Episode 2506 CWSA 06/15/24
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but I don't want to shove pine cones up my ass. That sounds really painful. And people will say, well I mean if you don't care about your health you can do it your way. No, now I got to eat a whole fish and shove pine cones up my ass. Everything's too hard. Well here's a surprising result of a study. Thanks to science we have determined, remember you used to hear from women that if only men would…
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Now let's take it to the next level. If you can 3D print something as sensitive and powerful as a rocket engine, how far are we from 3D printing a small modular nuclear reactor? Suddenly, if you could get rid of the burdensome regulations but not the ones you need, if you get rid of regulations and you could locate the new reactors let's say where there are already nuclear power plants, and you could keep the waste there, which is the new way they do it in some cases, they can reuse the waste for fuel for other types of reactors. If you could do all that and then you could have a standardized design that's approved by the government and all the regulatory agencies, and your biggest problem was actually manufacturing, you might be able to 3D print it. Imagine if you could 3D print a pre-approved known model of a small modular nuclear reactor.
Now you might say to yourself, I don't want to be the first one to live next to the 3D printed nuclear reactor. But I would have said that about going up in a rocket. If they can make it safe enough for a rocket, I don't know, seems like they might be able to make it safe enough for a nuke with a little extra work maybe. That's one of those boring little stories that might be like one of the biggest deals in the whole universe. Could be.
Meanwhile there's a Turkish student who is trying to pass some difficult entrance exam and cleverly used a hidden camera and a button that would look at the test and it would use AI to solve the test questions and then read it into an earpiece. So the guy was listening to the answers while the button was looking at the test and he got caught. Now I feel like I would have wanted to hire that guy on the spot because if his system worked it's kind of impressive. It's like, huh, if you can do that, yeah I'd like you to work for me anyway. It seems like there's going to be a lot more of that type of cheating.
Well the New York Times is reportedly, they got rid of like nine out of the 16 of their artists who were on staff and they did it because, some say it's because of AI but I think the New York Times says no no it's just cost cutting. But the union for the workers at the New York Times said that firing artists and replacing them with AI, the union said and I quote, "I thought we were better than this." Better than this? Is the union actually a communist organization? What do they mean by better? I thought better was companies hire people when they need people and they fire people when they don't need people. And it's called capitalism. It's called capitalism. That would be the system that we're living under, allegedly. But according to the union who apparently are communists, "I thought we were better than this." Better than what? Capitalism? If you're better than capitalism, what's the name of that? What are you calling the thing that's better than hiring and firing depending on th
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e business's needs? What's better than that? Communism? I can't think of anything else they'd be talking about. So apparently the employees of the New York Times are literally communists or socialists or something but they don't understand this whole capitalism thing. Well here's the good news and bad news. Let's see if you could have predicted this. If you haven't read the story I want to see ho…
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