This makes me realize how freaking stupid we are as a nation/group-of-nations:
There are issues/problems that are common to all. Especially common to ALL governments, societies, etc.
Given a population of X and an infrastructure level of Y with purpose Z that are impacts ABC...N
A=Cost
B=Scale
C=[whatever]
N=...
So - when you look at the cost of a nation, we assume that we have an infrastructure maturity/development level of X
What does it cost to implpement, upgrade-to, maintain that level.
What is the standard.
etc...
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So, when we talk about "saving $X for reinventing Y thing" -- this is a reactionary (albeit valuable) effort...
What if we restart rebuilding our societies from ground zero.
Lets build a preplanned city (yeah yeah brazilia etc) and first model it out ala simcity.
with AI running it over and over again until it outspits a detailed plan, it thinks is ideal and then a big committee of meat-bags review it and fuck it up.
Any Gates-level-ish people want to try to build something.
I didn't vote on your comment, but would opine that it fit the downvote-attracting heuristic of "how freaking stupid we are" + pseudo-thoughtful symbolic algebra + inchoate nerdrage.
There are issues/problems that are common to all. Especially common to ALL governments, societies, etc.
Given a population of X and an infrastructure level of Y with purpose Z that are impacts ABC...N
A=Cost B=Scale C=[whatever] N=...
So - when you look at the cost of a nation, we assume that we have an infrastructure maturity/development level of X
What does it cost to implpement, upgrade-to, maintain that level.
What is the standard.
etc...
=============
So, when we talk about "saving $X for reinventing Y thing" -- this is a reactionary (albeit valuable) effort...
What if we restart rebuilding our societies from ground zero.
Lets build a preplanned city (yeah yeah brazilia etc) and first model it out ala simcity.
with AI running it over and over again until it outspits a detailed plan, it thinks is ideal and then a big committee of meat-bags review it and fuck it up.
Any Gates-level-ish people want to try to build something.
Fuck Mars. Earth First.