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EP #8 Eric Schmidt's AMA: AI, National Security, and Cyborgs
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why Should the Government Fund Basic Science?
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Michael Blochston: Science funding as a percentage of GDP is as low as it was before Sputnik. He says there's not an economic justification except for extremely wealthy countries, companies to fund purely the pure joy of research. "The vast majority of the money that I was fortunate enough to make at Google will go to science and science-related things," he said.
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