precisely because techno-industrial advancement shows up in the macroeconomic aggregates not as growth but the opposite, violent destruction.

in the worst case whole industries disappear. old categories, well balanced production lines at equilibrium are erased permanently.

for this same reason the demotic state mandate of "GDP maximization" cannot yield stable acceleration. it can yield linearly sped up production. but not the kind of economic vitality that used to be common a century earlier.

the loop needs to thread through the outside to remain stable, that is the Only way to do stable R&D is via arms races.

no other mechanism can be rigorously imagined. anarchy is the only way.

in parallel with equal measure to the metrics rising, actual useful research collapses.

if you measure research papers put out. you gonna get more papers of useless quality.

if you measure 'impact' - via some terribly opaque and complicated bureaucratic function - you the 'impact' scores are going to rise.

there is no metric to which you use to allocate resources to research that doesn't implode into auto-orgasmic sensory metric stimulation.

in every other place R&D is done by public state organs. which used to function pretty good not long ago.

the issue with state R&D is of course that it is thoroughly unstable, due to Goodhart's Law.

for the simple fact that R&D is part of the production loop. 20+% of revenue(not profit) is fed back into research by private industry. with the explicit intention to try to destroy previously built up capital stock.

the only industry where there is visible, regular and predictable vast capital depreciation happening is semiconductors - with its doubling Moore's Law dynamics.

there is practically no fundamental scientific advancement happening anywhere.

bio-engineering is hamstrung by vast body of regulation.

SMR, nuclear tech, has advanced exactly 0% even tho it would be OOM superior to every other energy alternative.

nano-tech is a graveyard of dead promises

"Social and technical feedback machinery is reality’s (only?) friend, but what does the Cathedral care about any of that? It’s winning a war of religion. Compulsory anti-realism is the reigning spirit of the age."

"The field widely agrees that race is a social construct, but gets into trouble when it ignores semantics."

capital is castrated, humiliated on the regular by demotic zombie politics.

worse still, all solutions lie beyond the horizon of political possibility.

no. when you have state mandated global inflation - to say nothing of financial debauchery - you don't have anything even remotely approaching the Rule of Capital.

this is the kind of dumb stuff you say when you think that capital is The principal sovereign force in the world, as of the current order.

- It can never perform its own self-image successfully but always falls back on brute power (unnetworked, unambiguous, dumb). It is a system whose strongest production is the production of the image of its own productivity."

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its so good that I have like 50 DMs open on twitter. I can just harass them.

I didn't even say anything bad. I literally said that some french policy officers should get warm pussy on their dicks every night for their service. what rules did I violate?