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The price of energy has always been approaching zero. Restated, the amount of energy available to an individual has generally grown exponentially, with pauses
by colechristensen 4y ago
The price of energy has always been approaching zero. Restated, the amount of energy available to an individual has generally grown exponentially, with pauses here and there because civilization. We might be resuming that growth in the next few decades.
Fusion isn’t and won’t be solved in the immediate future. There is a long path towards commercial viability and a lot of milestones along the way… and not really a great method of associating them in a popular science sort of way that doesn’t seem like “we’ve solved fusion!”
Real significant progress is indeed being made and is expected to continue, people are going to be excited then disappointed by milestones being announced because we’re closer but not there.
Fusion isn’t just always thirty years down the road though, we can see the destination getting closer.
- EZ-Cheeze 4y agoI think all progress will accelerate significantly with the dawn of true AI. The fusion scientist can now ask ChatGPT for ten (or 10,000) ideas on how to solve a particular roadblock, and a lot of the suggestions will be actually good. The cost of intelligence has suddenly become near-zero, and that will supercharge everything to do with innovation
- 988747 4y agoLOL, no. Asking ChatGPT is no different than just googling the question, except the answer is more nicely formatted. ChatGPT has no actual intelligence in it.
- anotherman554 4y ago"The fusion scientist can now ask ChatGPT for ten (or 10,000)" Since the ChatGPT can't perform empirical experiments and update it's suggestions based on those experiments it has no way to tell a "bad" idea from a "good" one.