Oh my gosh! Sorry if it seemed that I was speaking about you directly. I never thought fusion startup founders would hang out on HN! I've always imagined you

Oh my gosh! Sorry if it seemed that I was speaking about you directly. I never thought fusion startup founders would hang out on HN! I've always imagined you guys would only interact in long email chains with .edu domains :) > But I still wish the current set of researchers all the luck in the world, because successful fusion power production could do so much for the world What about the contemporaries of those who succeed? Given the time slot in which you tried this might not apply to you anymore, because entrepreneurs like athletes need to be judged against their contemporaries, different eras don't matter. As I was saying, according to your judgement, if General Fusion were to succeed at some point in 2035+, what would be the impact on the Commonwealth Fusion guys? Do you think that the quality of life provided by fusion would still exceed the financial and morale blow of failure? I mean once a person sees their competitors succeed big (and the value of their own enterprise going to 0) does that entails a situation when said quality of life becomes "pushing on a string" and there's no return psychologically speaking? Even if it's something like fusion?