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    1. ⓘ 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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    2. ⓘ 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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    3. ⓘ 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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    4. ⓘ 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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    5. ⓘ 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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    6. ⓘ 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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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs @MorlockP
      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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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jan 2021

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      39/ and here --->https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1345099555507994624 …

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs @MorlockP
      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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    8. ⓘ 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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    9. ⓘ 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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    10. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 1 Jan 2021
      Replying to @MorlockP

      Don't really feel like engaging on this point if you're gonna make snide comments about my field

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

      This was the exact opposite of snide! I wanted to explore what you see, and how you interpret it, and see how it differs from what I see. Maybe see if definitions are the issue, or something else. Sorry it came across as snide, it honestly was intended as an invite to dialog.

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        2. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 1 Jan 2021
          Replying to @MorlockP

          Not sure how I'm supposed to react to the comment about "real" engineering, but I'll take your word for it. I see lots of different problems on the ground, but far and away the most common is problem is a culture of extreme risk aversion among engineers and scientists.

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        3. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 1 Jan 2021
          Replying to @mattparlmer @MorlockP

          It's not just people being asked to follow arbitrary regulation - which is why we don't have an 80% fission electrical grid and are still stuck with 737s - it's a disease that goes all the way up the discovery stack to the grantwriting process at research labs.

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