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by hdivider 1y ago
If so, yes indeed, fair point by him/her. It's up to ordinary folks like us to push against unfair tech transfer because yes, federal labs and research institutions would otherwise provide the incumbents an extreme advantage. Havi
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by hdivider 1y ago
I fail to understand the sentiment here. This is the intention of tech transfer. To have private-sector entities commercialize the R&D. What is the alternative? National labs and universities can't commercialize in the same way,
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by hdivider 1y ago
DARPA is high risk. ARPA-E is high risk. ARPA-H is high risk. Much of NSF is high risk, like NSF Engines, NSF Future Manufacturing, NSF Convergence Accelerators. DoD SBIR/STTR is high risk. (Confirm it for yourself and look at this mon
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by hdivider 1y ago
Yes indeed, what a travesty. :) Or they may study misinformation, another affront to civilization itself, because of course we know exactly how it works in this ultra-fast AI era with several competing superpowers.
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by hdivider 1y ago
You are typing this with software built on top of an incredibly vast technology stack which simply would not exist without federal R&D funding. May be worth remembering this fact. In the next few hours, you will almost certainly use n
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by hdivider 1y ago
After "attention", definitely. :) In broad strokes, the US excels in looking to the future, but compared to e.g. Europe, it's harder for folks to get interested in history.
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by hdivider 1y ago
"In the new structure, even if a revised proposal gets the green light from a division director, a new body whose membership has not been determined will take a fresh look to ensure it conforms to the agency’s new standard for making a
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by hdivider 1y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted because your points are accurate. Ultra nationalist propaganda wouldn't sell well internationally compared to e.g. Star Wars. And the current administration does at least purport to follow free
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by hdivider 1y ago
Love it. Bob Dorf, successful entrepreneur and investor, once told me: "Avoid investors! Avoid investors. Avoid investors for as long as humanly possible."
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Ford Nucleon(en.wikipedia.org)
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by hdivider 1y ago
It's complex, for sure. I look back to the JFK era and how those folks handled far larger nuclear arsenals -- and then created the space program as we know it today. Peaceful exploration of space during the Cold War, with much of the s
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by hdivider 1y ago
Sadly, we need it. And yet we should build and struggle toward the conditions which would allow a massive reduction of the nucelar arsenal. This would require a level of strategy and clear-mindedness as well as strengthening the US Alliance
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by hdivider 1y ago
Of course all the SpaceX and Tesla contracts are 100% efficient. Nothing to see there, move on to science, health, education.
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by hdivider 1y ago
Consider all the small business defense contractors who are held to the letter of the most minute security compliance requirements. They have to somehow meet everything, with very limited resources. And then at the top of government, the mo
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by hdivider 2y ago
The world in your last sentence may be possible. Consider: we have entire libraries full of psychological research about all sorts of behaviors and disorders. And quite often, how to deal with them. Now: do we use any of this expensively
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by hdivider 2y ago
It seems like so much has been said about climate change, with such comparatively miniscule action by the powerful. Imagine being one of the optimates, the financial ultra-elite. You are at the pinnacle of power in our civilization. You hav
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by hdivider 2y ago
It's not cognitive dissonance. The head of Tesla is not a legitimate business person. That is the difference. He is now deep in the most sensitive parts of government. And this is only the beginning. If Koji Sato of Toyota had access t
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by hdivider 2y ago
I'll share unpopular advice here: it would be wise to adopt a more Stoic approach to the present crisis. The events unfolding now are an expected progression of choices made years ago. The choices made now will likewise determine the f
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by hdivider 2y ago
Nice to see all this discussion. That was kinda my point in the OP, taking only LLNL as an example. Whether or not the result is significant isn't the main thing; main point is: an advanced society would have so much interest in fusion
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by hdivider 2y ago
Spherical bearded philosophers. You forgot the bearded part.
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by hdivider 2y ago
If our society were sane, rational, advanced, the headlines would be all about scientific and technological progress. The fusion power breakthrough of 2022 by Lawrence Livermore National Lab would still dominate the news. Large corporations
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by hdivider 2y ago
In my view we should also stop taking the Great Technoking at his word and move away from lionizing this old well-moneyed elite in general. Real technological progress in the 21st century is more capital-intensive than before. It also usual
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by hdivider 2y ago
During that time, your brain would do far more than just that text generation though, beyond what we even know scientifically. But yes, food energy could be useful for AI. A little dystopian potentially too, if you think about it. Like DA
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by hdivider 2y ago
I still find it remarkable how we need such an extreme amount of electrical energy to power large modern AI models. Compare with one human brain. Far more sophisticated, even beyond our knowledge. What does it take to power it for a day? So
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by hdivider 2y ago
A classical philosopher once told me that many ultra-wealthy people have ancient papyrus scrolls hidden away in their collections -- full of ancient Greek and Roman knowledge currently unknown to the outside world. Keep the value up by keep
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by hdivider 2y ago
Reminds me of a conversation with a late friend. We wondered: what would the most academic book possible look like? It could have: one brief, vague, and hedged statement, supported by a crapton of superscript references -- which constitu
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by hdivider 2y ago
100%. If they could learn anything, then shouldn't modern ML systems be able to solve the big mysteries in science -- since we have large datasets there describing the phenomena in various ways? E.g. dark energy, dark matter, matter-an
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by hdivider 2y ago
I don't understand the 'lie' part here. How is what I stated false? The rest of what you said doesn't invalidate my points.
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by hdivider 2y ago
Except not in NATO, Five Eyes, or even a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. In real terms, they're definitely among the more problematic allies. Compared with Germany, UK, France, Australia, Canada, etc.
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by hdivider 2y ago
FWIW: I think your point is highly insightful. Very deep, and I'll be thinking about it for quite some time! It all comes from the same psychological place -- reminds me of autocracy vs democracy. In one, presumed superiority of the au

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