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The US is spending around 1% of its national budget on science, and a minuscule part of that goes to quantum computing. That fraction of the pharaoh's treasury
by dguest 4y ago
The US is spending around 1% of its national budget on science, and a minuscule part of that goes to quantum computing. That fraction of the pharaoh's treasury might have payed for one rather entertaining crackpot to build bird-like things, but it wouldn't put a dent in their other accomplishments.
- throwawaymaths 4y agoBut actually if you spend more money than can reasonably and effectively be spent on a given field, you run the risk of setting back the field by advancing charlatans.
- boltzmann-brain 4y agoThat's an interesting comment. Have you seen this happen?
- rini17 4y agoPsychedelics.
- throwawaymaths 4y agoYes.
- troyvit 4y agoMaybe cold fusion?[1] (probably not though) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
- HideousKojima 4y agoVC investment in crypto. The 1% (too generous?) of proposed usecases where crypto can actually solve practical problemsgot hardly any VC funding compared to the idiotic ideas like smart contracts.
- jl2718 4y agoIf you're talking about Langley, they money was tragically wasted as the local bicycle mechanics achieved the result mostly by ignoring the theories that turned out to be wrong, and are still wrong, and have been proven to be wrong, and yet are still universally taught today, perhaps as a sort of right of passage, because the truth is either too complex or too simple to fit neatly into the understandability exclusion zone.