One wonders what sorry of actual useful and scientifically interesting research could have been funded with the money that went to research pseudoscience? This reminds me very much of research into alternative medicine woo.https://twitter.com/cgseife/status/1133031806427697152 …
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Replying to @gorskon
Indeed. This was $10 million worth of lost opportunity. And Google was researching it because "the pay-out could be huge." I think it betrays a mystical streak -- a belief that even physical law will bend to the will of the Silicon Valley ubermenschen/Randian heroes.
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Oh, the lure of tech woo is just as strong as the lure of medical woo, and when these tech titans spew it they're taken way more seriously than they deserve. It's basically Deepak Chopra for tech.
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