Comment by naasking
18 hours ago
Either you care about advancing the frontier of knowledge or you don't. If you care, then you should use every tool available to you. If you don't, then society has no obligation to fund your personal hobby interests. Calling this "selling out" is ridiculous.
What knowledge? The authors haven't even read the output.
Humans aren't the only systems that can wield knowledge now.
As a human, why should I care? I'd like to advance human knowledge, not canine knowledge.
There are likely remote planets with alien intelligence on them -- aren't you glad we've explored distant stars and planets?
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