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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

      28/ ...has been reduced to a smooth slick-as-wet-ice pathway, connecting you and your ideas with likeminded tribemates. In 2020, how many millions of people work from home, doing basically HOBBIES, and get paid for in? In 1920 they'd be doing 12 hr factory shifts.

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

      29/ Heck, in 1980 they'd be putting on polyester suits, fastening their ties, driving their crappy cars running on leaded gas to dirty cities so sit at desks under flourescents and file TPS reports. No flying cars, but now there's a vast industry of artists, crafts people,

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

      30/ TTRPG designers, SF authors, digital artists, oil painters, musicians, CAD designers, blacksmiths, editors of anthologies, furniture designers, etc. living lives that are customized and meaningful ... bc of slow steady "meh" improvements in infrastructure tech since 2000 AD.

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

      32/ Piston rings are better. Carbide teeth on cutting burrs are better. Bearings in tablesaws and 4" angle grinders are better. Motors are better. Windows are better. Insulation is better. Car bumpers are better. HVAC is better. Vacuum cleaners are better. Everything is

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted patrick

      33/https://twitter.com/TN_Patricoa/status/1345107232774639616 …

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      patrick @TN_Patricoa
      Replying to @ArthurFrDent @MorlockP
      I remember learning about semiconductors and diodes in P-chem 20 years ago. A big question at the time was whether it would ever be possible to create a white LED. 20 years, and white LEDs are now so ubiquitous as to be unnoticeable. Remember when we used to change lightbulbs?
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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Marcus Drusus

      34/ I ENTIRELY disagree. There is effectively no distinction between consumer goods and capital goods. A "big TV" is the same as a big monitor that lets a CAD guy works 4x as effectively as he could 20 years ago.https://twitter.com/marcus_drusus/status/1345107654700621829 …

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      Marcus Drusus @marcus_drusus
      Replying to @MorlockP @mattparlmer
      I do think there's a useful distinction to be drawn between improvements to consumer goods and improvements to capital and processes. A bigger TV might be fun, but won't help create new things in the future. A reusable spaceship can.
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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

      35/ A "mere phone" is a pocket supercomputer that replaces the user interface panel on any sort of robot or machine, allowing mechanics to diagnose cards, read tech manuals, etc. in the field.

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

      36/ A 3-d printer for printing custom minis for your Pathfinder game is exactly the same thing as a rapid prototyping tool that lets mechanical engineers design and deploy a new product in 5 months, not 24.

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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

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      37/ Gosh, if only I'd addressed this exact topic in tweet #9 of this sequence. https://twitter.com/2Akmessiah/status/1345109977057226752 …

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

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      38/ here ---->https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1345099554325200902 …

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      9/ "Phones don't count. Don't you read Moldbug? And I don't own a Tesla. And cheap consumer stuff is bad for the SOUL. The average medieval peasant -" ok, the topic isn't the soul, the topic is technology. And you don't own a Tesla YET. And you don't travel to space YET.
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          39/ and here --->https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1345099555507994624 …

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          10/ "Well, I don't WANT to travel to space. And I don't WANT a self driving car. And I don't WANT cheap consumer crap." OK, again, that's not the topic. The topic is "has technology stalled?", and your responses are all about government, or aesthetics, or culture.
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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

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          40/ and finally here -->https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1345099556544008194 …

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          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs @MorlockP
          11/ ...so, maybe, formulate THOSE are your thesis statements, or something, and don't use "technology is dead, bruh" as some sort of weird metonym for your discontent w the world?
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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted mattparlmer  🪐

          41/ Would be curious to hear Matt say more on this, bc I think that tons of REAL engineering work takes place every dayhttps://twitter.com/mattparlmer/status/1345110620807569415 …

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          mattparlmer  🪐 @mattparlmer
          On the contrary, I argue this *because* I believe in good engineering and know from direct experience across a number of different fields and indirect observation of many others that very little of it actually happens in practice. https://twitter.com/terronk/status/1345103977474445312 …
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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Maiq T. Onesimus 🕯( 🇳🇱)

          42/ I think there's something to this. But, also, we are now rich enough as a society to prize a large basket of goods, such as indoor heat AND steel AND clean air, which means regulations and trade offs, which means we don't have rapid "break throughs"https://twitter.com/MaiqTL/status/1345111878884847617 …

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          Maiq T. Onesimus 🕯( 🇳🇱) @MaiqTL
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Perhaps because we are advancing so quickly and so broadly, there's no "tech leader" to be held up by the zeitgeist.
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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

          43/ The fact that we are not building a Pittsburgh full of smoke belching refineries and mills do XYZ is not evidence that tech has stalled, but that we're rich enough to intentionally throttle some development until we can do it without externalities.

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

          44/ When you see China build cities overnight, that is, yes, PARTIALLY a sign of a young vibrant can-do culture ... but it is ALSO a sign of poverty. Poor countries can't "afford" property rights, or environmental review, etc.

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

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          45/ yep! This is another facet - early tech is big and in your face and LOOKS like tech. E.g. a massive coal smoke belching train. Later tech is quiet and unobtrusive - like cheap cameras the suppress property crime, which makes us wealthier. https://twitter.com/2Akmessiah/status/1345112653480382465 …

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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

          46/ And a lot of tech is big and bulky ... but hidden away from view (which, again, is a sign of wealth). MRI machines and a thousand other advancements lower cancer deaths, but what does that look like? It doesn't look like a big machine. It looks like grandma at Christmas.

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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Greg Suburban

          47/ "ersatz" is a bogus complaint. Yes, processed fish sticks aren't as awesome as tuna sushi ... but it's 1% the price. Without fish stick technology, the people eating fish sticks today weren't eating high grade sushi. They were eating oatmeal.https://twitter.com/GregSuburban/status/1345112559020507136 …

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          Greg Suburban @GregSuburban
          Replying to @GregSuburban @MorlockP
          Increasingly tech is used to make peoples lives worse, replacing real things with ersatz alternatives, making people irrelevant. The techno-future of yesterday was a utopia, the techno-future of today is dystopian. The cry of today: "I wish technology would stop progressing!"
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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

          48/ Chipboard bookshelves aren't as good as hand made walnut barrister bookcases with brass fittings. But without ersatz chipboard, the normies weren't using barrister walnut - they had no shelves.

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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Emily Elephant

          49/ Exactly.https://twitter.com/ee_elephant/status/1345113450343772161 …

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          Emily Elephant @ee_elephant
          Replying to @MorlockP @mattparlmer
          People don't want technology. They want stuff that works. Once it works, it ceases to be counted as technology. Ergo, technology is non existent and/or shite, please subscribe to my YouTube channel
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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Lee

          50/ yes and that improvement in rubber technology means that everything you buy costs 0.1% less than before, which means you can take a slightly longer vacation ...and 5 days on the beach instead of 4 doesn't "count" as technology.https://twitter.com/leepavelich/status/1345113209947111425 …

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          Lee @leepavelich
          Replying to @MorlockP @mattparlmer
          I always love hearing about small technological advances in things that are far from my experience that build up over time. Like maybe semi-trucks get a new type of tire that's 1% more efficient and down the line I pay less in shipping
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        14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

          51/ These 1% improvements are going to keep adding up, and in 30 or 50 years you'll take a vacation to Mars. ...and people will bitch "well, space travel isn't a NEW or REAL technology ... we had this a century ago. They just PRODUCTIZED it." Again: "just".

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        15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Oleg

          52/ I don't, as I explained in the above 51 tweets.https://twitter.com/k0stoglotov/status/1345118922404630528 …

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          Oleg @k0stoglotov
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          I still do think there's been a deceleration in technological progress over the past decade.
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        16. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Greg Suburban

          53/ Technology has ALLOWED ME to live on a farm and grow my own food. Technology allows others to live in places with indoor plumbing (another simulation, I guess, of the more visceral and real state of nature). So maybe it's a toss up.https://twitter.com/GregSuburban/status/1345119293059416064 …

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          Greg Suburban @GregSuburban
          Lived experience is being replaced by the simulation of life. Technology is increasingly used as a "prosthetic" for functions we've lost, and the solutions we invent are pale shadows in comparison. Con.t https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1345113650089111559 …
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        17. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Oleg

          54/ Asserting "X is Y" without an explanation, cites, discussion, etc., is very boring. Everyone has an opinion. Your opinion WITHOUT ELABORATION is hideously boring. so...EXPLAIN. GIVE EVIDENCE. MAKE THIS NOT BORING.https://twitter.com/k0stoglotov/status/1345119387234099200 …

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          Oleg @k0stoglotov
          Replying to @MorlockP @mattparlmer
          Deceleration doesn't mean it's stopped
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        18. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted James M

          55/ Exactly. Tiny improvements compound and make things move from "the lab" to homes, "all at once".https://twitter.com/Jubalnc/status/1345119856010686464 …

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          James M @Jubalnc
          Replying to @MorlockP @mattparlmer
          I think this point's related to productization. If we were 50% wealthier in real terms, say, in 1982 as in 1959, then even an instantly-built CD player would have been 50% more expensive for people. Improvements in productivity in every field made CD players more feasible.
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        19. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted John Taloni

          56/ Rome was a society that routine tortured political criminals to death, practiced infanticide, and child sexual slavery. I'm very glad that productizing steam took a while.https://twitter.com/JohnTaloni/status/1345131866651676672?s=19 …

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          John Taloni @JohnTaloni
          Replying to @MorlockP @mattparlmer
          Hero of Alexandria had a working steam engine circa 50 AD. Had he understood what could be done with it, Rome need not have fallen. We might have reached for the planets 1,000 years ago. So yep, going from prototype to usable technology really freaking matters.
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