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by dylanjermiah
3929 days ago
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Billions of dollars a year already go into cancer research. Infinite funding != faster progress. I'd say the allocation of capital has been fairly efficient. Uber will be doing self driving vehicles(among other companies), and that will be as transformational as the automobile itself. |
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Moreover, technology is not a straight line. For example as far as cancer research goes, computer gaming and the incredible investment in graphics card technology (and the consumer market for it) has done more to help in recent years as a general effort then any other specific advance.
But people have definitely sat around saying "we shouldn't spend money on this..."