As Moldbug put it, “CS research” is so obviously optimized to churn out unusable crap that even when they accidentally invent something useful, most likely it will be left buried under these Augean Stables until fossilized, as «the thing has the academic kiss of death on it, and no one will touch it».

But that’s academia. Why the process gets organized this way in actual enterprises? Is this one more result of brain damage from theocratic education, like corporate bureaucracy?

Everyone in Taiwan knows that US weapons manufacturing is crucial to Taiwan’s safety. Very few people in Taiwan fear that the US might forget how to manufacture weapons. If I knew an effective way to raise public awareness about the importance of weapons manufacturing I would devote great efforts to such messaging.

When you stop manufacturing, you lose all the accumulated knowledge held by the staff, and it is usually impossible to recover it in any reasonable time scale.

Off-shoring your factories also gradually eliminates your ability to design things, as you lose the interactions between designers and builders.