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Comment by smartmic

10 hours ago

No, not necessarily. It's the ratio and for most basic research the numerator of the fraction is also approaching zero.

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JumpCrisscross  7 hours ago

Yes, necessarily. Basic research is currently useless in the same way building something that hasn’t been built is currently useless.

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