Seriously, what’s stopping someone from doing this? Regulation? Low-trust society? Collapse of the elites? Please figure this out or I will have to do it

@isaiah_p_taylor I watched Mark Zuckerberg give billions of dollars to research in Reality Labs with the very best of intentions, and very little to show for it.

John Carmack

https://x.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1867245751820005517

Curious | building robots | https://anurajrp.io/about/

I also suspect that just having very high IQ people together would not lead to productive research. 🧐

https://open.substack.com/pub/freaktakes/p/how-did-places-like-bell-labs-know

solving the money problem of research solves only a part of the puzzle of “productive research”

When Wall Street tycoon Alfred Loomis turned his home into a private research center, we got radar, plutonium, ultrasonics, and several other pillars of the 20th century. They easily outclassed every other lab in the country.

Dear 21st century billionaire, what’s stopping you? https://t.co/Skody0UGCH