Nope, being serious
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it's just so bizarre to me that people such as yourself, who are obviously intelligent, could ever think this like I know how this conversation would go, I would flap my hands and say "DJI Mini 2!!!" and you'd say "yeah, so"
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mattparlmer 🪐 @mattparlmerPoint being that we might have higher observed rates of technological progress than ever before while still being in something of a technical dark age because the rate of progress has been a fraction of what it could be since at least the 1970s and probably since the 1930s.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
ok there's something to that We should have an 80% base of nuclear energy delivering 10x the available wattage per citizen right now and
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Right, and we just don't. We're knocking out stuff at an unprecedented pace that is a fraction of the pace we could actually be moving at.
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"technological progress continues to accelerate except in areas where other factors are stalling or suppressing it" is a different and more accurate picture from the attitude being poked at in the main thread /
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Every Single Time I drive to the bottom of "tech has stalled", what they're really saying is "gov is shitting on things". Yes.
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and the things government is shitting on *includes tech* so it isn't entirely wrong but important to separate out from innovation which is so very much ongoing
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Yeah, they're clearly related topics, but the framing is sloppy AF. But, also, talent is as mobile as capital. Gov crapping on nuclear power means more geniuses doing chip design.
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