In most cases, where you can independently verify facts on your own there’s no need to resort to an external authority. Particularly, when we’re asked to cease thinking and just rely on assumptions that other people might have made is particularly puzzling to me.

Do I expect that China will succeed generating excess power from D-T fusion eventually? Yes. Do I expect that it will be economical, ever? Hell, no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

Perhaps China’s long term planning is not as good as you think it is. And arguments from authority ain’t.

In my experience, only a small set of people thoroughly understand limits to growth on a finite planet. Most of them figure it out on their own. And it is a profoundly depressing experience.

Enjoy living in your gaudy pollyanna bubble.

Collapse is called a predicament rather than merely a problem, precisely because it is a tangled complex of problems that has no solution. See https://escholarship.org/uc/energy_ambitions for why it is so. Or, rather, don’t, since if you get it, all you get is a massive depression for your pains.

Notice that we’re also running out of time, so things feasible in principle are not reachable in the time window still at our disposal. The next 2-3 decades should make that clearer.

It’s neat science and tech and a nice paycheck. So enough motivation. Few people are aware that our high technology civilisation has an expiration date, so let them party while they still can.

Here’s a thing about potential: you can only be certain of it after you’ve solved these “engineering challenges”. Does tritium breeding factor, EROEI and material footprint (all mined, transported and processed using fossil fuels) mean a thing to you? These factors are not specific to fusion, but they’re the most challenging for fusion reactors of currently known designs.

If you need to move the document bulk, you can either rsync the docs and repin them, or use IPFS native means of replication to remote – haven’t used those.

LibGen on IPFS used to work, try e.g. https://bafybeifaxsen4np54stc43phpnn3rh2crxie34d74yki43dultrh4vglqy/ – but I have no idea about how much of the library corpus is pinned currently.

No risk of a meltdown, yes, but diamond encrusted platinum infrastructure. Doesn’t produce nuclear waste, no: high neutron flux on the inner wall will activate materials, and limit lifetime. Doesn’t need uranium, needs to breed tritium (plus excess) literally by the ton, in the lithium blanket. Helium, what, have you smoked waccy tobaccy today?

Electrical power generation from fusion will be orders of magnitude more expensive that from fission, and will be even more material intensive.

I find LLMs very useful in my professional (senior IT consultant) and hobby IT life.

Which is not a problem for tens to hundres of terabytes of library documents, which are all static. And there’s https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/ipns/ and https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/dnslink/ but latter suffers the same problems as DNS.

IPFS is tricky, but can be made to work, at least at Libgen scale. Content discoverability is always a problem, so depends on the number of pins on the network.

Unfamiliar with that one. Pointer, please.

How is the IPFS situation?

GOS has good broadband isolation, and can actually switch the cellular radio off.

IMAP on desktop Thunderbird works. Or used to, you can never know these days.

I should know the relevant ones of at least three decades. My interest started with Bamford.

My 20 year old son doesn’t know who Snowden is.

Sooner, if the AI bubble blows.