You make it sound like uranium nuclear reactors vs thorium nuclear reactors. Because of the arms race, uranium ones were developed first even though they are me

You make it sound like uranium nuclear reactors vs thorium nuclear reactors. Because of the arms race, uranium ones were developed first even though they are merely a (as one HN commenter put it) local optimum. And I remember I was one of the happy guys, rooting for AMD and enjoying cheaper processors. Was I foolish ?