If you like what I’m saying, assume I am smart. If you don’t like what I’m saying, assume I’m sarcastic. Asexual. Atheist. Apo’strophe police. Go away now.
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11·3 days agoOh sorry, I interrupted you in the middle of changing the world.
Could you destroy unnecessary apostrophes in possessive pronouns? Get rewarded with correct grammar.
Why is that wizened old man dressing in a leather jacket?
Great, can we unleash the bonkers insane computing power for something useful like simulating matter to understand aging?
That’s nice. Now run a modern civilization of 10 billion (upcoming) with only electricity.
One is an energy and material source. The other is neither and is simply storage.
Why would you compare them?
Oh wow, 500$. So what?
I’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy?
A graph is not proof of fusion energy. Yelling at clouds would probably generate more net energy than all fusion research has to date.
It’s a dead end. It will never ever work. A combination of civilizational die-back and concomitant reduced energy use and a hodge-podge of renewable sources is the likely future for humanity.
And that’s my optimistic take.
My more realistic take is that we are running out of cheap easy energy. The kind of monstrously massive contraption filled with high-tech exotic materials that is a fusion reactor is exactly the kind of thing we will NOT be able to build anymore in the future.
It’s the same impasse that kills all the space fantasies (like people who think Avatar is just around the corner). If we HAD the resources to build fusion reactors or mine asteroids, we don’t HAVE a resource problem!
And if we have such a resource crunch that we think fusion/space is the only solution, we don’t have the resources to do it.
The future is horses, not Star Trek.
Get used to it.
How about: figuratively tilting at windmills would have generated more net energy than fusion research.
There are fusion reactors that fit between your fingers.
You’re so dense you could fuse hydrogen.
Lol any year now!
ha hahahahaahaaaa… oh boy… you techno utopians are funny. Maybe build a Space Elevator out of 3D printed AI Bitcoins and run a fusion reactor at the Lagrange point? Privately! On the Moon! To colonize Mars and mine the asteroids! Become a multi star species!
OK, time will tell. How about I save you the wait: nothing will happen. At all.
4·20 days agoHow’s your Turkish?
What for? I can’t think of a single problem I have in my life where the answer is AI.
On public transit, it bottoms out.