It's great funding for physics research. I don't care if it's useless, it beats ...

ghurtado · 2025-10-22T20:13:04 1761163984

There's also the fact that the road to useful is littered with useless, because how else would you make progress?

oh_my_goodness · 2025-10-22T23:33:54 1761176034

You could do what evolution does, and require that every version be useful. But evolution seems to require an awful lot of trial and error.

dboreham · 2025-10-23T00:19:17 1761178757

Evolution requiring that every version is useful seems a (significant) oversimplification.

oh_my_goodness · 2025-10-23T00:24:19 1761179059

If some version is not reasonably useful, it doesn't have kids.