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Comment by dsign | Hacker News Reader

HN people has three orders of magnitude more technical background and education than politicians, yet when it's about fusion, fision, renewables and climate warming, we only manage to output a miserable 0.01 % consensus and the rest dissipates in waste argument.

It comes to reason, the politicians are going to produce only 0.00001% of consensus.

Conclusion: things are looking rather bad. We are not going to achieve Civilization Survival, much less Singularity Ignition.

My suggestion: highly educated Homo Sapiens may not be the right course. There is a proven way of saving the planet which, by virtue of its remarkably sustainable intellect, we should be investing more on: koalas.

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I have been a HN user for a long time. Honestly, I disagree. Most HN users commenting here with smart stuff about fusion, just read it on another page a day or a week ago, from a bite-sized article or a reddit comment. Everyone, for the most part, parroting what they read on a short note somewhere else. Some more committed ones read the synopsis of a few papers before writing something smart.

Anything you read on the internet, explaining any advanced scientific concepts like fusion etc... take it with a huge grain of salt.

We are all parrots.

Some commenters have devoted their career to it.

They’re a tiny tiny minority if any, compared to what we are seeing here in comments.

I’m sure they would agree with what I said when they scroll through the comments.

I would not want to wander into HN comments section if I am doing any kind of divergent innovation, challenging the limits of what's technically possible. People here just parrot the status-quo as the absolute truth. If that was the case, humanity would have made zero progress.

Some nerd in some quiet corner, working hard in disbelief of the rest of the society, is the one changing the course of history. Not the ones, parroting established textual truths. There is GPT-3 for that.

Maybe if the article would contain the HN names of the scientists in the experiment in bold instead of Senator names, it would be easier to find them (I'm sure some of them are around here). We should just find those sources, it's not that hard in the internet age.

It doesn't matter if people agree, it only matters if it works or not.

HN comments is an exploration of the topic. There is no stated goal to reach consensus. Also there is no requirement to be deeply knowledgeable about physics, energy or fusion to comment.

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