mRNA vaccines. Net positive power output from fusion. Off the top of my head.
I agree with your concept of capitalism killing innovation and forcing people into dead-end jobs. But that doesn’t mean technical innovation is dead. Just means it’s not progressing optimally and not benefiting the right people.
Generative AI too. It might be hammered into everything to the point of being tiresome, but it is technologically impressive that you can have a computer just synthesise a photo/video/music.
Compare to 20 years ago. Being able to just go “Computer, create for me an original landscape painting”, and have it make one would be something that you’d only find on television/in movies.
In 2025, most everyone in the world can translate foreign languages at the press of a button. I dislike Gwern since he’s a bigot, but I like his article, “My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s.”
Google translate isn’t much better than it was in 2010, but LLMs do a much better job. Admittedly, Google Translate is what most people use. It works well enough though.
What we’re really fucking up is the ramp from fossil to advanced energy sources that could enable massive outward expansion into the solar system. The billionaires are forgetting that a larger piece of a smaller pie is still less pie.
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mRNA vaccines. Net positive power output from fusion. Off the top of my head.
I agree with your concept of capitalism killing innovation and forcing people into dead-end jobs. But that doesn’t mean technical innovation is dead. Just means it’s not progressing optimally and not benefiting the right people.
isn’t that goochie goo autism old guy halting mRNA research?
Not in any civilized country, no.
I mean for the US. Which is like what, less than 5% of the world population? And now maybe much less??
Generative AI too. It might be hammered into everything to the point of being tiresome, but it is technologically impressive that you can have a computer just synthesise a photo/video/music.
Compare to 20 years ago. Being able to just go “Computer, create for me an original landscape painting”, and have it make one would be something that you’d only find on television/in movies.
In 2025, most everyone in the world can translate foreign languages at the press of a button. I dislike Gwern since he’s a bigot, but I like his article, “My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s.”
We could do that in 2010, which is about where it stagnated.
Google translate isn’t much better than it was in 2010, but LLMs do a much better job. Admittedly, Google Translate is what most people use. It works well enough though.
Yeah. Last tine we gor any positive modal shift was smart phones. That was 17 years ago.
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The phones weren’t the problem.
Well, they fucked uo design a lot, but tgey didn’t ruin everything.
What we’re really fucking up is the ramp from fossil to advanced energy sources that could enable massive outward expansion into the solar system. The billionaires are forgetting that a larger piece of a smaller pie is still less pie.