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@evan@cosocial.ca @seanbala@mas.to I read a completely unrelated article that pointed out that silicon valley culture and VCs by extension assume that anything that already exists is inferior. Silicon Valley has done a lot of things in its innovation history. Early on, it did tremendous work with electronics and physical computers. More recently, it has exploited the internet mercilessly to both destroy and create value chains where data of any form was moving around or persisting. Quite a lot of what the Valley has done is destroy capital, but it has created some amazing firms and attracted a lot of talent. Some of the firms are even good things for humanity and many of the people try to have their hearts in the right places. And in the Valley, if something already exists there’s a strong tendency to think it’s obsolete and that novel things are by definition better.https://cleantechnica.com/2023/11/30/what-drives-this-madness-on-small-modular-nuclear-reactors/