nylon_panda

To my understanding it'd need to be set-up so the proposition of R&D is granted by unbiased parties. I believe its been linked on HN before, where it describes what system would be best to incentivize research? It stated the dangers of funding the research of only the popular (and contemporary) topics, which tilts R&D away from discovery and more towards 'lets try to yield xyz, and if it fails, lets not release it'. Someone who is motivated to grant something must be completely separate from the publication, most likely those who researched it and many other scientists, & unlike peer review try not to trim any of it out

Which is where UBI will need to come in, or a reallocate labor workers to where they can self sustain. Then it'll lead to some 86 Eighty-Six world, where humans live in holding pens and wars are fought with crazy robots all out of sight & no information comes out about it to the public

the effect of having plastic merged with rocks is unknown, its bewildering to see comments romanticizing it, akin to those staring in awe of the green sky during chernobyl