Interesting proposal. Based on the "corruption" of US Congressman doing stock
trading, I do hold with treating the US taxpayer, as the same. Allowing us to
invest in Sci R&D. Permitting us all to gain profits. Start with 1% of Taxes to
gain ROI, Professor. In Aus, you folk could invest in say solar tech, with a
quicker ROI say than Fusion? Or do QC Neural Net investments verus LLM's.
Medical of course for the biggest slice of cheese for us rats in the rat-race.
Consider?
On Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:57:26 PM EDT, Russell Standish
<li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 01:24:08PM +0000, 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything
List wrote:
> Oh, Professor, I have zero opposition to us the taxpayer spending trillions on
> R&D for both basic research and technology. I do note with deep concern that
> trillions over the years has been wasted. Unfocused discovery of wonder is
> terrfifc, but human need supercedes unrelated stuff in my opinion. How much is
> enough, and when does x cross y for a return on investment? I am not a young
> man and have been waiting 45 years for fusion, either magnetic or inertial
> confinement, eh? Space travel will benefit, but again 20 years?
>
> What seems more likely in a few yers is pervoskite solar, possibly deep
> georthermal (maybe), and we could've developed fail-safe fission, and JC's MSR
> reactors. Medicine? That's the Cash Cow for R&D and seems underfunded, and
> uncoordinated. I'd have used US Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's method of income
> engancement for All US citizens, by giving US taxpayers the right to donate 1%
> of their taxes to stocks that have R&D behind them, say medicines? Again, ROI.
> Just an idea...
You mean everyday citizens decide where the money's spent? This would
have a different bias to the above, vulnerable to social media
amplified influence. Probably not too dissimilar to politicians
deciding, just with somewhat less formal lobbying methods.
I seem to recall distributing funds by random lottery might be the
least worst option of them all. At very least, scientists/academics
would not need to be spending all their time writing non-productive
research grants that they have to do now.
>
> Ciao!
>
Cheers
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