I hope it is a while before I have to buy a new computer!
It's cheaper than new and it'll do everything you need it to without even breaking a sweat.
as much as we are blaming the pandemic, and the crypto and AI bubbles I think Moore's law was really about transistors getting exponentially cheaper not just exponentially smaller. If you can't afford them it doesn't matter how big or small they are!
I think the EUV transition broke the long-term cost decreases and we might be seeing the end of progress in electronics and computing unless there is some fundamental change.
Narrower horizon: https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/enepol/v38y2010i9p5174-5188.ht...
As for electronics manufacturing it's believable we see something entirely different in 20 years (SQUID? true 3-d integration?) but I expect a rough patch for most of the rest of my life. Not like I won't have enough retro games to play for my entertainment.
Just got back giving from Casey Handmer some tough love over (1) it is not commercially interesting to make methane on Earth and (2) it is not feasible to make make methane on Mars unless you can make everything else. Handmer is a tragic figure like Klein, except Klein's tragedy is a tragedy for us all whereas Handmer and I are the only ones crying over his tragedy because I could use a buddy to talk to about the interests we share who is worth talking to.
If Musk was the hard man he pretended to be he'd be interested in my notes on how to attain manufacturing autarky after the future event the Club of Rome warned you about. But he's not so he's not. He gets to date the models from Looker [3] but which witch can resist a pet therianthrope? [2]
[1] ... of which, oddly, there are two different designs!
[2] ... sorry gsf_emergency_\d but a good parody deserves a parody; is @cindy your sister?
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looker (I was so dazzled by that LOOKER Gun, my second favorite sci-fi gun of all time, that I had to watch the movie a few times to realize it really is just as bad as everybody else says it is)
Eg The Doodad (after Gibson, neither 0% nor 100% lethal, cf Venezuela, "Middle America"). PP gave me retro-pause marvelling at the Chinese supplying precursors to the WestHem factions (existenz). kinda vibe-prophetic.
My best take on what you meant by the tragedy Handmer is that he has the mike (and loves to drop it whenever he can)--- but the tragedy of the rest of us here is that we don't quite. ?.
And Martian ice caps?
Just realized I'd never connected face to name, so I'd bounced off his Dwarkesh clips BC 1st impression was "fake genZ". Oops.
Now admiring the ambiguities in "rough patch" and "Cindy".
My takeaway from the French essay was that there was nothing stopping others from learning from one's mistakes (ie "without doing")
Edit:
https://lethalindisguise.org/crowd-control-weapons/acoustic-...
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a32892398/...
Very ICE, also vibe-prophetic
Edit 2 (reel vs real)
The RI <-> SV
Met <-> Dems (sorry if too heroic but no one else wants to be official with stubbers)
Klepts <-> "Trumpians"
Stubbers <-> DSA
Edit 3: ah so it's an IMI Micro Uzi