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[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If this is what it takes for them to put more than the current perfunctory technically-not-mothballed amounts of money into nuclear fusion I'm going to laugh-cry into my pillow.

[–] rook@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago

I'm sure you can pitch using AI to design fusion reactors to these folk. Then all you need to do is to use the avalanche of VC capital to fund engineers and physicists who will be providing the "training data"...

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

they won't, and even if they do it'll dry out after a year or two when they run out of hype