[GoLUG] LLMs can't reason

[Ron]

Steve Litt wrote on 2025-06-18 19:06:

> I'm hoping to be alive when Europe and/or China makes electricity 
> for their people using Fusion energy.

I was always keen on fusion energy, but had my hopes dashed quite
convincingly by the argument that any advancements that help enable
fusion (i.e. superconducting materials at room temperature) will *also*
enable every other form of electrical generation (save photo voltaic in
this case) perform better.


At which point, "invest $20 billion now and in 10 oops 20 years,
start to sell electricity to the grid" is a non-starter vs "invest only
$20 million now and start selling electricity in 2 years" with wind
turbines which now use superconducting materials.


> But fusion as a power source is never going to happen. Not because
> it can’t, because it won’t. Because no matter how hard you try, it’s
> always going to cost more than the solutions we already have.

https://matter2energy.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/why-fusion-will-never-happen/



On a positive note, there's lots of fusion generated electricity 
available now and more on the horizon, it's just that we've outsourced 
the power plant by about 90,000,000 miles for safety reasons.