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Science will become a corrupt imperial bureaucracy that wastes billions of dollars rather than achieving breakthroughs.
What Jiang said
“It's more likely that they will take all these billions of dollars the government throw at them and they'll just waste it all. Why? Because they can. It's much easier for people to be lazy, greedy, and corrupt than it is for them to become God.”
Analysis
Jiang argues the real problem with science is not that scientists will become gods, but that they will become corrupt bureaucrats who waste government money without accountability.
Source lecture
Status history
- 2026-05-26 · Pending (glm)