.@SecretaryWright on nuclear: "We're restarting three power plants, upgrading power plants all across the country, and soon, you'll be hearing announcements about new reactors being constructed. The nuclear renaissance is REAL."

@ENERGY commits up to $5B for nuclear uprates in IL, MD, & PA—adding 1,100 MW of reliable power for 930K+ homes. Constellation’s upgrades boost grid reliability & support America’s energy dominance.

This post has been widely discussed, but I think worth highlighting the important implications it has for Christian alignment and computational theology research more generally. First, the delicious implication that the puzzle of polysemanticity was a function of relatively primitive models means that the looming normative debate over alignment is closer than we might have imagined. Enormity helps. If more modern models naturally evolve towards interpretability, then one might suddenly end up with the unexpected luxury of asking not just "how" but "who" models are aligned towards. Lacking the excuse of inability, whether such powerful systems should answer to a company, a nationality, an ideology, or a theology comes into focus as the critical governance question. Second, if the recursive generalization motif is the building block of neuronal meaning, then it may turn out that religious representations are a particularly interesting target from a mech interp point of view. Christian iconography and theology are by virtue of their long history highly compact computational objects: the Virgin Mary is the product of innumerable generalizations sprouting away from monosemantics. The complex "control flow" in Nick's vision governed by such resulting religious neurons represents the new challenging frontier as clean understandings of floppy eared dogs and automobile shapes come into focus.

Chicago has 39 data centers. What are they powering and are the public's biggest fears true? Brad Tietz from the Data Center Coalition (@DCC_org) helped write the 2019 Illinois data center incentive He joins to talk water, jobs, electricity bills, Chicago's proposed moratorium, and what the next decade of data centers in Chicago should look like 📺 0:00 Intro 0:30 What's Changed Since The 2019 Illinois Incentive 2:50 Rewriting the Incentive for the AI Era 4:50 Chicago's 39 Data Centers and Who They Serve 6:53 Why the Non-AI Story Isn't Being Told 8:37 Do Residents Actually Feel Tax Revenue 11:13 Myth #1#: Data Centers Drink All Our Water 14:38 Myth #2#: Data Centers Don't Create Jobs 16:34 Myth #3#: Data Centers Are Raising Electric Bills 20:03 NDAs, Transparency, and Regulation 22:01 Chicago's Next Decade: AI Inference and Smaller Sites 24:16 The Chicago Moratorium and Springfield's Framework 28:18 Is the City Bringing Industry Leaders to the Table? 29:13 Historical Comparisons: Rail, Fracking, and 5G

Yes, it's Saturday morning and I'm reading the transcript of a data center site hearing in Licking County, Ohio. One testimony in its entirety: MR. ELKINS: I'm a representative for the millwrights through Central Midwest Regional Council of Carpenters. We have over 500 members who reside and work in Licking County on numerous different projects. I'm in support of this project for Will-Power 'cause it's just going to add more money and more tax dollars back into the economy, especially on the local side. Not to mention these guys would probably love to work in their backyard. Most guys like myself, I've traveled for, like, the last five years. I've been away from my family, watch my kids grow up through a phone. I'd like to see a lot of my buddies have that different opportunity -- be able to watch your kids and families grow up. That's it. That's all I got.