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by csmpltn
1856 days ago
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> "But (1) this seems obviously to be a really hard problem, and one that couldn't even have been attempted in 1970" Apollo 11 landed on the moon July 20th 1969. You think that didn't take a degree of "AI" and "ML"? Or maybe we just had a different name for these things back then... It's been 52 years since then. We're simply focusing on the wrong problems. |
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1960s USA had a less superficial political culture, so was more willing to tolerate PR-sensitive risks in pursuing major technological achievements, and it could allocate a much larger proportion of GDP to the Apollo program, as government directed social welfare spending consumed a far smaller share of GDP: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-is-driving-growth-...