>How might Gates spend its money more wisely? McGoey offers little guidance on this. This is the crux of the article to me. These problems don't have known sol

>How might Gates spend its money more wisely? McGoey offers little guidance on this. This is the crux of the article to me. These problems don't have known solutions. The options are to do expensive research/experiments or just keep the status quo. The status quo doesn't work, so let's do some exploration, like Gates did. There are difficult ethics involved, but if you think something will do better I would argue it's unethical to ignore it. The real touchy issue is how to do that and minimize the impact of inevitably being wrong sometimes.