TheMajor comments on The Great Filter is early, or AI is hard - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 30 August 2014 12:52:24AM *  2 points [-]

Once AI is developed, it could "easily" colonise the universe.

I also see this claimed often but my best guess also is that this might likely be the hard part. Getting into space is already hard. Fusion could be technologically impossible (or not energy positive).

Comment author: TheMajor 30 August 2014 09:09:26AM *  1 point [-]

It seems like there is steady progress at the fusion frontiers

Comment author: satt 30 August 2014 05:16:49PM *  5 points [-]

Though in the case of ITER the "steady progress" is finishing pouring concrete for the foundations, not tweaking tokamak parameters for higher gain!