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> probably should have just given him a lab with a couple of employees and a modest budget. Who knows what he might have invented? This is perhaps the defining
by rektide 4y ago
> probably should have just given him a lab with a couple of employees and a modest budget. Who knows what he might have invented?
This is perhaps the defining sadness that most saps at me. This is a world of such potential that does such expensive vast things. I really wish there were more room & space for people to go off & explore, try testing new novel spaces.
Dont we have some surplus, to feed the promising with, to give them a couple allies to go boldly sally forth with?
The corporation as a model has such deficiencies, has such need for alignment & concensus & purpose. Humanity is just so much greater when there's some permissionless innovation, some real testing & pushing things just to find out, to try & see, to go further. Our models of labor & vue seem so unable to make small but long bets on so many bright stars.
- thorin 4y agoAlmost everything is FOR PROFIT NOW in the western system. This kind of thing is more likely to be happening in China. R&D departments have been downsized in most cases (maybe not in bio/pharma, which still has a long lifecycle). We have few Musks who can go out and do interesting things.