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Focus on relatively unimportant subtasks has a name. It's called "bikeshedding". This achievement is relatively unimportant. It's not the major issue that wo
by pfdietz 2y ago
Focus on relatively unimportant subtasks has a name. It's called "bikeshedding".
This achievement is relatively unimportant. It's not the major issue that would block a DT fusion reactor. As such, achieving it doesn't move the needle much on the plausibility of DT fusion in tokamaks.
- 1970-01-01 2y agoThis is not the definition of bikeshedding.
- pfdietz 2y agoBikeshedding is focusing on triviality at the expense of important issues. That is just what is happening here. The showstopper issues with tokamaks are size, cost, reliability, materials. This has nothing to do with any of those.
- 1970-01-01 2y ago>The showstopper issues with tokamaks are size, cost, reliability, materials. Plasma runtime in not a showstopper then?
- pfdietz 2y agoIt's an issue that wasn't high risk. I mean, sure, check off the box, but don't pretend this moves the needle much. This was minor compared to those issues that have no clear solutions, or reasons to think there won't be solutions.