Post APVY5FjftuMYW6sY5I by ElefantSavant@nerdculture.de
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 (DIR) Post #APVY5DzuMa9x7sSU6q by ElefantSavant@nerdculture.de
       2022-11-11T15:36:40Z
       
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       Question for philosophers (anyone): If you were the principal investigator of a major international university research project and you had the funnding to develop a portable solar powered technology that could provide vital communications to people in conflict zones and impoverished areas for everyone, or to delay development time by years to make a portable Nintendo DS with graphic accelerators, which would you choose?  https://twitter.com/_initrd/status/1591065302493958146
       
 (DIR) Post #APVY5EkLZvJ3RuBZUe by chris@girevik.su
       2022-11-11T22:23:12Z
       
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       @ElefantSavantPeople die. Feel better?
       
 (DIR) Post #APVY5FjftuMYW6sY5I by ElefantSavant@nerdculture.de
       2022-11-11T15:47:12Z
       
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       @ElefantSavant: typo: *funding #philosophy
       
 (DIR) Post #APVYUN5ThjwgYc3Rjc by ElefantSavant@nerdculture.de
       2022-11-11T22:27:43Z
       
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       @chris that isn't the issue. it's that the choice of one's work can be used to improve the greater good, whereas instead it is used to develop inefficient and impractical toys, from a university (not from an entertainment company)
       
 (DIR) Post #APVYfEKeb2yAaZKZKC by chris@girevik.su
       2022-11-11T22:29:44Z
       
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       @ElefantSavantTruth.
       
 (DIR) Post #APVYlNlmQA3Fb1x70C by chris@girevik.su
       2022-11-11T22:30:51Z
       
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       @ElefantSavantIf it makes you feel better, every time a scientist makes something for the greater good, the State weaponizes it to kill or rule people. Does that help? Gut?
       
 (DIR) Post #APVZ9dSziAfvEIjLWq by ElefantSavant@nerdculture.de
       2022-11-11T22:35:05Z
       
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       @chris: It can happen in the sciences- a pharmaceutical company may fund university research, and may want a biased review- there is a conflict of interest. It could also be in the computer engineering departments- Intel or Apple could fund university research, then hope to use that research to produce expensive new toys. In government, it's known as "regulatory capture" where the industry has a revolving door of lobbyists. Semiconductor companies want to be used in academia projects.
       
 (DIR) Post #APVZTNXadJd9d0IIcq by ElefantSavant@nerdculture.de
       2022-11-11T22:38:43Z
       
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       @chris: who says the state has to weaponize it? that's the definition of regulatory capture in the academic sector- where instead of industry it's the military funding research. one could at least explicitly try to discourage it, with https://thufie.lain.haus/NPL.html (Hyperspace client for Mastodon uses this)