I think some of it has to do with incentives. Nobody wants to invest in a team to adapt and test other-field lessons that may come out as "there's no free lunch

I think some of it has to do with incentives. Nobody wants to invest in a team to adapt and test other-field lessons that may come out as "there's no free lunch" or "this is equivalent to a hard problem they didn't solve there yet either." So instead we're more likely to see navel-gazing "singularity" stories that fit with telling your investors they will become fantastically rich.