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> "But (1) this seems obviously to be a really hard problem, and one that couldn't even have been attempted in 1970" Apollo 11 landed on the moon July 20th 196
by csmpltn 5y ago
> "But (1) this seems obviously to be a really hard problem, and one that couldn't even have been attempted in 1970"
Apollo 11 landed on the moon July 20th 1969. You think that didn't take a degree of "AI" and "ML"? Or maybe we just had a different name for these things back then...
It's been 52 years since then.
We're simply focusing on the wrong problems.
- CryptoPunk 5y agoI think that's just a matter of 1. resources and 2. risk tolerance. 1960s USA had a less superficial political culture, so was more willing to tolerate PR-sensitive risks in pursuing major technological achievements, and it could allocate a much larger proportion of GDP to the Apollo program, as government directed social welfare spending consumed a far smaller share of GDP: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-is-driving-growth-in-government-spending/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-is-driving-growth-...