Cory Doctorow on Nostr: By the same token, learning about improving gestational health by breeding ...
By the same token, learning about improving gestational health by breeding multigenerational mouse families in geosynchronous orbit is no way to get a billionaire tech baron to commit $250 billion to space science. But that's not an argument against emphasizing *real* science that *really* benefits our whole species. It's an argument for taking away capital allocation authority from tech billionaires.
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