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Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not
Your 30B number is assuming perfect efficiency. You're not accounting for having to go through thousands of prototypes of perpetual motion machines
You might as well've said "The patent office should grant 1M alongside every patent it grants"
eaenki
on Sept 21, 2019
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It should be pretty close to a math function. It must be 10x something great. If it’s supposed to 10x the speed of human travel, and there’s some plausible reason to believe there’s a chance it’ll work (TBD what exactly that is) then it gets funded.
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You might as well've said "The patent office should grant 1M alongside every patent it grants"