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Or... hear me out here... It's obviously a web of private R&D, public institutions like NASA, higher education, and yes, the military too. But acting like sci

by gptgpp 4y ago

Or... hear me out here... It's obviously a web of private R&D, public institutions like NASA, higher education, and yes, the military too. But acting like scientific innovation and technical progress is all, or even a majority due to the military is boot-licking weirdness. You have fun with that. I just don't know how you can look at the heaps of Nobel Prize winners, Turing Award, etc. or groundbreaking papers in almost and field and think "Oh yeah, must be the American Military is behind this."

jakear 4y ago
> All the shit we use is a by product of their first move. This is an overstatement. > A large amount of the technology we find useful was investigated in some capacity by the single most well-funded R&D organization in the world to some extent before we knew about it. This is more reasonable. Worth noting the jump you made from G*P's "shit we use" to "Turing awards, Nobel prizes, and Papers" was quite questionable.