• TommySoda@lemmy.world
    27·
    2 days ago

    And who, exactly, is going to get paid to do that? Last I saw 75% of them were furloughed at the moment.

    • fonix232@fedia.io
      11·
      1 day ago

      Don’t worry, there will be a company popping up tied to some Republicunts who’ll do the testing for “cheap”.

    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      I’m NGL If my job put in the position to be the one testing nukes it would be very tempting to do so even without pay just on a ‘oonga boonga big boom’ basis. Unfortunately I’m educated enough to know how awful that is for the environment, also not a nuclear test engineer or whatever the job title even is.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
        6·
        1 day ago

        doG help us all:

        the US Department of Energy (DOE) launched an application for interested parties to apply for access to a maximum of 19 metric tonnes — a little under 42,000 pounds — of weapons-grade plutonium, which has long been a key resource undergirding the US nuclear arsenal.

        One of the companies anticipated to receive shipments of the fissile isotope from the DOE is Oklo, a “nuclear startup” backed — and formerly chaired — by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

        He really is hellbent on literally destroying America for money.

        However

        As the FT reports, we won’t know for certain until December 31

        So I hope this makes the rounds and steps are taken against it soon.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          12·
          1 day ago

          Look, I hate the guy too. However, this probably isn’t bad. Nuclear energy is incredibly safe, and clean. If he wants to use some of his money to build out nuclear power then I’m fine with that. It will almost certainly never make up for the damage done by “AI” but it’s better than not having it.