Control F for national labs, and this is the only comment that came up. That makes me sad. The DOE and NNSA national labs are enormous R&D institutions and hav

Control F for national labs, and this is the only comment that came up. That makes me sad. The DOE and NNSA national labs are enormous R&D institutions and have grown far beyond their original propose in the atomic weapons complex.[1] I personally work for an office that pumps over 100 million annually into the system, and frankly that's small change. Probably about 40%-60% of that money goes into overhead and facilities which enables research outside of my project. There are a lot of fair criticisms of the system, but most of that is because real R&D works like ycombinator. Lots of investment, with the hope that eventually something pays off in a huge way. Like the system or not, most people who are unhappy with it are really just unhappy about government sponsored R&D. Almost by definition, it's not going to be "efficient" in the short term. If people are interested in big money, complex problem science, i encourage you to take a look at the labs. They cover everything from supercomputers, to marine science, to renewable energy. [1] https://energy.gov/about-national-labs https://energy.gov/about-national-labs