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by lispm 3246 days ago
The CERN budget is roughly a billion Euro per year.
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some numbers from https://press.cern/facts-and-figures/budget-overview

in 2016, 1127.2 million CHF or 1,163,675,662.22 USD

A billion dollars' research into AI would be more beneficial than another billion spent on CERN.

The Standard Model covers well over 99% of known physics already. Other moneys are being wasted paying students and professors to study string theory w/o any experiments possible.

Let's develop some true AI and let it close the gap. Two birds, one stone. [And maybe we can find out how we do analogies, at the same time!]