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Yeah so awesome that the whole world can coast to success now that DARPA derisked the future.
by paulsutter 9y ago
Yeah so awesome that the whole world can coast to success now that DARPA derisked the future.
- acdha 9y ago“derisked” is [willful?] misrepresentation. This isn't a hard argument: board early research requires a lot of speculative work which doesn't pan out for everything which does, not to mention tons of basic training and equipment investment. Companies have a hard time justifying that and, unsurprisingly, the record shows they largely don't. Government funding operates with different incentives and timescales and has a lengthy track record of success getting ideas to the point where companies are willing to foot the remaining development costs.