@paulg Operation Plowshare: converting nuclear bombs to practical use is too hard to do. Big explosions are hard to channel.
What are engineering projects that failed because they were too hard (rather than because the people were incompetent)?
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@paulg A more comprehensive summary from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare …
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@paulg apple newtonThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg 1: lots of early AI (IIRC, McCarthy assigned computer vision as an undergrad summer project)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Mission to Mars. Failing since 19.. ?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg it seems like the answer is every failed project is do to incompetence.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg nuclear fusion?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg quantum computers?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Engineering is parametrics... Science. Figuring out what we don't know... Now, that is hard.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg automating programming or building human equivalent AI systems come to mind.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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