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eringer

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8. This is Utter Nonsense

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Dec 4, 2025, 11:15 AM

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A nuclear reactor is not a kitchen oven where you bake brownies. Human oversight will always be required. Maybe 50 years from now, the answer would change. That presupposes breakthroughs in fusion technology.
If you really want AI to run something, give it diesel generators to operate. This administration loves oil as it demonstrated at its president’s inauguration where the convicted felon said that the USA will “drill baby drill.”

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