the great corporate monopolies of america should step up and fund ten times more basic research & academic science to replace whatever grants are now missing from NSF budget, each with their own capital allocation ideology of course

the NSF grants around $1-2 billion annually in research funding. facebook alone pays these kinds of fines to European regulators as tithe every year. sad state of affairs if Terrence Tao is unfunded

obviously, it was probably better to just fund the NSF, which seemed to be a fairly efficient institution for creating public research, but we should use these deficits as an experiment in creative destruction

@Ryan_Murphy1 i am worried about the ideological purity of “if agi why do anything else?” the answer is greatness cannot be planned