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Compared to what? Civilization spends on a lot of speculative stuff. Venture capital is the art of investing in failures 999 times out of 1000. And personally I
by civilized 4y ago
Compared to what? Civilization spends on a lot of speculative stuff. Venture capital is the art of investing in failures 999 times out of 1000. And personally I'd rather have tens of billions spent on speculative theory research than on, say, Meta's VR boondoggle.
- hermitcrab 4y ago>I'd rather have tens of billions spent on speculative theory research than on, say, Meta's VR boondoggle. We can certainly agree on that!
- alexvoda 4y agoI believe the lesson here is not that we shouldn't invest in speculative theory research. It's that we need more breadth, we need to not get stuck researching only one option.