Comment by lumb63
2 years ago
GP does have something right, though. Throwing more money at a problem does not always yield a faster or improved solution. This is well-known in software, but maybe not in other fields.
Money needs to go to educating and recruiting more people to the field. It is not as accessible as programming, and so is harder, but the same concept applies.
"Money needs to go to employing more people in the field."
Provide the employment (at decent wages) and the people will get the training. Provide the education and recruitment without the decent employment and you'll have a lot of ex-job people in other jobs.
> Throwing more money at a problem does not always yield a faster or improved solution.
This cliché probably holds if you are increasing the funding of a single group - doubling Firefox’s income would not improve Firefox.
If you are funding independent groups, chasing different paths and solutions, then more money likely helps. Kind of like VC funding.
Of course having independent groups all chasing a single solution is also a single point-of-failure problem - the dominant amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's springs to mind as an example of a lack of diversity.