| ▲ | ineedaj0b 15 hours ago | |
Are you versed in the history of corporations and US government during WW2? | ||
| ▲ | oliculipolicula 13 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Even post-WW2. I'm sympathetic to PP's POV thus I'd really like to extract fallacies from it. Your q seems to suggest that setups like Bell Labs (but not to forget ARPA) were probably on the Pareto front of how to organize science. Not sure if the WH isn't just being reactionary or is indeed interested in moving back towards that Pareto frontier, but there's something else unemotional to ponder given that we don't know if China has their own BL/ARPA Yes, it's the promising q of whether/how Bell Labs/ARPA were "eating their own seed corn" by using "market-based mechanisms" _internally_ to allocate their assets. Towards finding anomalously-low-hanging fruits (<-- this goal obsoletes PP's gold-digging metaphor btw--- economists hate those Andrew Jacksons just lying there on uh, the virtual pavement!) It's probably a q that [a libertarian rag like] the Economist would be exploring too, if they felt the urge to work hard. At the very least they should try writing real hit-pieces on ARIA, which _was_ going to be led by Highnam from DARPA, after all. Sorry about the snark >DARPA has succeeded over the decades in part because many of its gambles have NOT paid off. That is a sign that it is investigating truly radical ideas, rather than confining itself to the sorts of safe scientific bets best left to industry or more conventional research institutions. (Ignore the logical error there?) https://www.war.gov/About/Biographies/Biography/Article/4047... | ||