The anniversary of the moon landing is a great reminder of how it messes with your expectations to be on a "we thought it was exponential!" technology curves when it flattens out, as is happening with computers today. I gave a whole talk about this! https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm …
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Anyway, just think about how insane it would have sounded in 1965 to argue that the U.S. would have no moon bases—in fact, no human space flight capability of any kind—in 2020, even though there had been no nuclear war. That's what it feels like to top out on exponential growth!
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The real question is : where are our sixteen-engines Ilyushins ?!!
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But quantum computers!
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But we make millions of Singular.class processors every few weeks...
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Thank god, I can stop that monthly autodebit that was going to build Roko's Obelisk.
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