Ugh...the "it's going to take a long time and cost us money" argument about why we shouldn't do something. From the point of a researcher, who's heard that same argument after proposing we start a research project...after being told how this has been a problem for years, or that it's going to be important in the future...my response is a…
Ugh...the "it's going to take a long time and cost us money" argument about why we shouldn't do something.
From the point of a researcher, who's heard that same argument after proposing we start a research project...after being told how this has been a problem for years, or that it's going to be important in the future...my response is always:
Well, it's going to take a while and cost money in 10 years, too.
I'm sure Cegłowski would have written the same thing in 1962 about Kennedy wanting to go to the moon. Oh, and he'd be smuggly telling us 30 years later how right he was because we went, then never went back. What a waste of money, am I right?
Oh, and not all of us who think we should invest in this are of the "transhumanist worldview that holds mankind must either spread to the stars or die." Good grief. What a strawman he dowsed in gasoline and took a match to.
And, finally, $500B over the next twenty years - $25B/year, really isn't that much for a country with a $30T economy.
Ugh...the "it's going to take a long time and cost us money" argument about why we shouldn't do something.
From the point of a researcher, who's heard that same argument after proposing we start a research project...after being told how this has been a problem for years, or that it's going to be important in the future...my response is always:
Well, it's going to take a while and cost money in 10 years, too.
I'm sure Cegłowski would have written the same thing in 1962 about Kennedy wanting to go to the moon. Oh, and he'd be smuggly telling us 30 years later how right he was because we went, then never went back. What a waste of money, am I right?
Oh, and not all of us who think we should invest in this are of the "transhumanist worldview that holds mankind must either spread to the stars or die." Good grief. What a strawman he dowsed in gasoline and took a match to.
And, finally, $500B over the next twenty years - $25B/year, really isn't that much for a country with a $30T economy.