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by 908B64B197 6y ago
> Even if you have a government dept. of 10x geniuses
In Government? I chuckled.
> it will just become another grant vehicle for academics in the publish-or-perish regime
I can already see the selection committee, all from non-technical backgrounds, getting clear instructions on who to fund and who to reject based on the demographics the party wants to appeal to and existing donors.
- hardlianotion 6y agoThat's not how current government funding for projects currently works - why is this so fundamentally different?
- 908B64B197 6y agoThis one is exempt from FOI. So the public will never know why a project was selected over another. Or why it failed, or what happened to the money.
- mattkrause 6y agoNot sure it's impossible. DARPA lists biographies of its newest program managers. All but one has a doctorate in a relevant field; the lone exception has a master's degree and aerospace work. They turn over every few years too, so it's not like their experience is stale. https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/new-program-managers https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/new-program-managers