It's really kinda too bad we don't have any sort of alternative funding model for a project of this scale, something like the Manhattan Project but not so defen

It's really kinda too bad we don't have any sort of alternative funding model for a project of this scale, something like the Manhattan Project but not so defense-oriented and nationalist. I wouldn't want the government to directly control and censor a model like this, but it would be cool if everyday people could (for example) just crowdfund $100 a person and have all this training in the public domain. That's 700 million people a year in order to reach their $7B/yr spend, though... not gonna happen.