The Singularity Will Occur on a Tuesday

Re:The Singularity Will Occur on a Tuesday by PaulHoule on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @08:21PM (#46969557)

Also those old open hearth furnaces are long gone, see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHnJp0oyOxs

There are people making top quality steel in the US today by modern methods but it wasn't like the new replaced the old, the old mostly disappeared and we got a little bit of the new.

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Re:The Singularity Will Occur on a Tuesday by jacquesm on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @09:07PM (#46969887)

Yes, I should have been more clear there: they could catch up in volume but it will require a different mindset if they want to become a net exporter of such items.

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Re:The Singularity Will Occur on a Tuesday by gsf_emergency_6 on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @09:57PM (#46970196)

To add a meta contribution to yours using anecdotes:

US pipeline for metallurgical R&D broken (by financial/cultural incentives)

This guy studied metallurgy in Carleton U, Canada, switched to CS, founded YC, emotionalized the decision

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600555

Who knows, he might have become John Carmack's John Carmack, building rockets better than Carmack or Elon

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Re:The Singularity Will Occur on a Tuesday by jacquesm on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @10:02PM (#46970232)

And yet, it could be done, I'm pretty sure of that.

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