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This is a very dumb meme that people use to avoid learning anything about the actual hurdles that are currently being faced by fusion researchers. At some point
by ambrozk 5y ago
This is a very dumb meme that people use to avoid learning anything about the actual hurdles that are currently being faced by fusion researchers. At some point, fusion will be much less than 30 years away, and at that point, I guarantee you that lazy people will still be repeating this joke, because it is literaly the only thing they know about the subject.
- khafra 5y ago"Fusion is always 30 years away" is a heuristic that almost always works. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost-always-work https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost...
- mcswell 5y agoWe did nuclear fusion in 1952. Controlled nuclear fusion--and producing more power out than goes in--that's another matter.
- Wiseacre 5y agoWe haven't even been splitting atoms for a full century yet. Give science some goddamn time to work.
- andrepd 5y agoNot to mention we haven't invested a fiftieth of what we should have into fusion research.
- sroussey 5y agoMore money goes to subsidizing almonds.
- vbezhenar 5y ago20 century progress was so crazy that people got all the kinds of unrealistic expectations.
- kaibee 5y agoNot reading the article in the link you're replying to is a heuristic that almost always works ;)
- orangepurple 5y agoThis is an excellent read, thanks for sharing
- NoGravitas 5y ago"Assuming anything Scott Alexander Siskin says is wrong" is also a heuristic that almost always works.
- DrBazza 5y agoIf only I didn’t do my phd in a department with plasma guys 30 years ago back in the 90s eh?