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Topic	Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electricity But Not Heat
WhiskeyDisk 12/01/19 3:17:14 AM #19:	shadowsword87 posted... My point being: If this were going to change the world, it would be referenced more, it would be brought up more, other people would be building off of this. Really? How long was gasoline considered a dangerous waste product of distilling other hydrocarbons before it literally ran the entire world? How big is the gap between Marie Curie and the X-ray machine. Or Hiroshima? How about when a pocket calculator was the the size of a loaf of bread and cost more than a car? How about supercomputers the size of a house that can't do 1% of the shit your cellphone does? We may be approaching the singularity, but we're still quite a way off. We're not in the AI paperclip/grey goo universe just yet. "This might be a revolutionary technology, but since it's use hasn't completely dominated our culture in 2 years, we should just shelve it indefinitely." --shadowsword87 --- The SBA has closed for business, we thank you for your patronage Assassins. ~there's always free cheese in a mousetrap. <cite>WhiskeyDisk posted [p:930942213] in Physicists... [t:78215639]...</cite> <quote>shadowsword87 posted...</cite> <quote>My point being: If this were going to change the world, it would be referenced more, it would be brought up more, other people would be building off of this.</quote> Really? How long was gasoline considered a dangerous waste product of distilling other hydrocarbons before it literally ran the entire world? How big is the gap between Marie Curie and the X-ray machine. Or Hiroshima? How about when a pocket calculator was the the size of a loaf of bread and cost more than a car? How about supercomputers the size of a house that can't do 1% of the shit your cellphone does? We may be approaching the singularity, but we're still quite a way off. We're not in the AI paperclip/grey goo universe just yet. "This might be a revolutionary technology, but since it's use hasn't completely dominated our culture in 2 years, we should just shelve it indefinitely." --shadowsword87 --- The SBA has closed for business, we thank you for your patronage Assassins. ~there's always free cheese in a mousetrap.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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