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> Main takeaway is that it is probably solveable, but only by government-scale efforts (philanthropy can't cover it). Well... Technically possible, yeah. One
by hwillis 9y ago
> Main takeaway is that it is probably solveable, but only by government-scale efforts (philanthropy can't cover it).
Well... Technically possible, yeah. One of the more expensive projects the US has ever done is the Apollo project, which was a bit over $20 billion annually in todays money, or .1% of GDP. Even building the nuclear arsenal was only $100 billion annually. So as a country the best we've managed is .5% of GDP, against the much more politically actionable threat of the USSR. A 1-2 order of magnitude increase over that is pretty unlikely.
Hell, global defense spending in 2016 was only 1.6 trillion.