AI murder drones. It’s not hyperbole.
https://carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/diwan/2025/11/an-automated-occupation-of-south-lebanon
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faffc2602 days ago
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with ai, robots starting to become useful on the battlefield (at least in ukraine), and the rise of drones war 20 years from now will look very different.
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Thin-Usual-43592 days ago
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you seem very optimistic that the earth will survive 20 years if the ai data center boom continues like that :D
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Academic_Net62982 days ago
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If environmentalists stopped standing in the way of nuclear energy it wouldn’t matter
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Feisty-Bluebird42 days ago
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That was true twenty years ago, now cost is the primary obstacle. Something significant is required to rebuild the industry to the point where costs are manageable. The other option is to decrease regulations, and when it comes to nuclear I’m not sure we should support that.
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Academic_Net62982 days ago
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Explicitly not true. Many of the biggest environmental groups like Sierra Club are unequivocally opposed to nuclear fission and put out [declarations as recently as 2 years ago talking about their need to “ramp up opposition to nuclear power”](https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/default/files/2025-02/ramp-up-sc-opposition-to-nuclear.pdf)
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Feisty-Bluebird42 days ago
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I’m not disagreeing with your claim that some environmental groups oppose nuclear, rather that they have no power to stop it now.
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Academic_Net62982 days ago
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Sierra Club is the biggest environmentalist group in the US and the next largest groups either don’t support building new infrastructure or refuse to support it.
People always bring up cost as if the US government hasn’t spent hundreds of billions on wind and solar subsidies for the modest gain of a [few percentage points of the total energy market share](http://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/20524.jpeg)
This money was thrown at the wrong target during the rise of natural gas expansion in the 2000s in no small part due to the efforts of environmentalist groups.
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