The meme of fusion being "5 years from now ... for past 40 years" is so frustrating. This is because the investment into it went down to abysmal -- not even "maintenance" level of when it was just getting started.

If the government spent money on it, we would likely have more progress.

And today isn't like it was before -- we have ReBCO ;)

I sometimes wonder how much further along these initiatives might be if the economy was focused on them instead of My Pillow sales, cheap crap from Walmart, and simply handing personally wealthy elites stacks of cash to create pointless jobs and the money was put into net new technology, not Twitter 2.0 and VR 4.0

Who needs to eat or sleep, it just hurts productivity.

The parent didn't suggest cutting off food, housing, or other essentials.

Technically, everyone in Soviet Russia had food and housing.

Have you lived there?

Move to China or North Korea I guess? Still seems to have problems with graft though.

Not American, but you asked for planned economy: those are it.

China is definitely not a “planned economy” in a sense that you meant it. Also, every economy is planned in some sense. Every government plans how much it’s going to make and spend.

So all these US businesses do zero planning? The Fed is raising rates for lulz? We’ve unintentionally allowed consolidation of ownership? No one has any clue? You’re nitpicking semantics.

AGI is somewhere between "never" and "GPT-3 is it", depending on how general the G has to be and how intelligent the I has to be.

(For all it's flaws, GPT-3 is already does better at random professional knowledge than many TV show script writers).

We just need to figure out how to align the carbon nanotubes properly