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Like any project, I'm sure there are many ways it can be improved. Still, I'd much rather see $1B spent imperfectly on something important - a thousand times o

Like any project, I'm sure there are many ways it can be improved. Still, I'd much rather see $1B spent imperfectly on something important - a thousand times over - rather than a trillion plus on the F-35, or so many of the ways governments spend money.

simonh 11y ago
No results from a wahatever effort is still axwaste no matter how wonderful the payoff might have been. This goes to the heart of why efforts like this get funding in the first place. The funding committees get blinded by the bright light of the potential payoff, and the money gets wasted instead of going to fund and actualy deliver valuable projects that aren't as glitzy. But at least you would have ended up with a real actual benefit.
- IanCal 11y ago
  > No results from a wahatever effort is still axwaste no matter how wonderful the payoff might have been. That's easy to say with hindsight. No results from putting money into something doesn't mean you made the wrong choice. That might be the case here, but as a general statement it's really quite dangerously wrong.
- IanCal 11y ago
  > No results from a wahatever effort is still axwaste no matter how wonderful the payoff might have been. That's easy to say with hindsight. No results from putting money into something doesn't mean you made the wrong choice. That might be the case here, but as a general statement it's really quite dangerously wrong.
- PhasmaFelis 11y ago
  > No results from a wahatever effort is still axwaste no matter how wonderful the payoff might have been. That's only true from a cynically commercial standpoint. From a scientific standpoint, negative results are every bit as important as positive ones. As Edison said, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." (Which isn't to say that we shouldn't consider the likelihood of valuable results, positive or negative, in relation to the time, money, and effort spent, just that there are important considerations besides commercial payoff potential.)

simonh 11y ago

No results from a wahatever effort is still axwaste no matter how wonderful the payoff might have been. This goes to the heart of why efforts like this get funding in the first place. The funding committees get blinded by the bright light of the potential payoff, and the money gets wasted instead of going to fund and actualy deliver valuable projects that aren't as glitzy. But at least you would have ended up with a real actual benefit.

IanCal 11y ago
> No results from a wahatever effort is still axwaste no matter how wonderful the payoff might have been. That's easy to say with hindsight. No results from putting money into something doesn't mean you made the wrong choice. That might be the case here, but as a general statement it's really quite dangerously wrong.
IanCal 11y ago
> No results from a wahatever effort is still axwaste no matter how wonderful the payoff might have been. That's easy to say with hindsight. No results from putting money into something doesn't mean you made the wrong choice. That might be the case here, but as a general statement it's really quite dangerously wrong.
PhasmaFelis 11y ago
> No results from a wahatever effort is still axwaste no matter how wonderful the payoff might have been. That's only true from a cynically commercial standpoint. From a scientific standpoint, negative results are every bit as important as positive ones. As Edison said, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." (Which isn't to say that we shouldn't consider the likelihood of valuable results, positive or negative, in relation to the time, money, and effort spent, just that there are important considerations besides commercial payoff potential.)