François Chollet on Twitter: "Free idea: start a foundation that does basic research in the public interest, and trick billionaires into funding it by telling stories about life extension, cyborgs, teleportation, telepathy, etc"

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1. Mark Riedl is a Metaverse Company‏ @mark_riedl 17 Jul 2019
  Replying to @fchollet
  
  Or raise taxes on billionaires and increase funding to the NSF and NIH
  
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1. Thomas G. Dietterich‏ @tdietterich 17 Jul 2019
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  Wasn't that the original business model for openai? (but for AI instead of telepathy)
  
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1. Sean M. Dineen‏ @seanmfdineen 17 Jul 2019
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  I like this. "We believe that by connecting all of the continent with fresh drinking water one could effectively reduce their heart rate to zero without dying, thus ensuring near immortality".
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1. Ian Martiszus ‏ @IanFelipeSays 17 Jul 2019
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  Don't forget to throw in a "surgeon" wearing scrubs as a spokesperson at your launch event...
  
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1. Riccardo Angius‏ @ricangius 17 Jul 2019
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  Seriously, we need a better strategy, if this is what we think of doing while one of the most significant extinction events in the history of Earth is taking place https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/16/20697123/elon-musk-neuralink-brain-reading-thread-robot … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction …pic.twitter.com/eLG2XuDazY
  
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1. sharan‏ @amsharan 17 Jul 2019
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  That's good way to kill trust
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1. SK‏ @FlyPage 17 Jul 2019
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  neuralink2.0?
  
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1. QHibernator‏ @bklau2006 17 Jul 2019
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  They love those to fuel their ego and legacy
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1. ALL OUR DATA IS BAYES'D‏ @crcdng 17 Jul 2019
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  I'm in.
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1. Carlos E. Perez‏ @IntuitMachine 17 Jul 2019
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  Considering the scarcity of basic research funding this idea is not uncommon.
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