Ed Dowd has been saying the large investments in AI are the next big tech bubble that will burst like the dotcom bubble did. Artificial neural networks are here to stay, but they don’t live up to their current hype in many areas. This project might be recorded as the peak of the AI bubble.
I want cheap fucking power but the fuckers closed it anyways. These evil fuckers need to process data to enslave us further, sure we'll power it back up! Fuckers.
A huge nothing-burger damning but ultimately pretty inconsequential event, with even a movie made about it. Yet it was used to hamper the nuclear industry.
Interesting timeline fact: The Three Mile Island meltdown occured 12 days after The China Syndrome release. This catapulted the film into the cultural zeitgeist.
I just re-read the Wikipedia summary and must have mis-remembered the details. It was actually fairly bad, but I guess due to the layered safety even when so many things failed it didn't really do much harm, other than ti the equipment. That it occurred so closely after that movie must have seriously catapulted it into significance.
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