I truly believe if we took a measely $50b out of the LLM world we could create trillion dollar economies from basic research within 10 years. I personally know folks who have intuitive understanding of things that can't get funding to be studied. If we could keep the money away from university upper management, it'd cost $10b max.
replyOh and while we're at it, $20b a year would house every homeless person in the US - there's a hell of a lot of extremely high intelligence and low social cohesion folks who can't handle the extractive punitive system we have. Our ability to deliver opportunity to create lucky situations for ourselves is getting worse and worse
$50B is essentially 100% of the annual NIH budget, which funds the vast majority of JUST life sciences basic research. So you may want to update your beliefs
replye: oh and while we're at it, California spent over $24 billion over a five-year period (2019–2024) specifically targeting homelessness
Yes! But if science is bottlenecked by funding, making it cheaper might help?
replyNot really. Grad students are already essentially working for free.
replyHow many lavishly-paid deans and bureaucrats and administrators are employed for each grad student?
replyLLMs can't materialize funds or political will so let's stick to running GPUs hot and publishing papers. The citations will be amazing. /s
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