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Re:Daniel Ek commits to investing €1B in European ”moonshots” by yholio on Saturday September 26, 2020 @06:18PM (#24602624)
Seems like they built a wonderful machine for answering "42":

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/ten-year...

Or will build, if they are granted the additional money they ask for past 2023: “The development of high-quality brain simulators requires a long-term commitment of resources”. We shall call it Deep Thought: the sunk-cost brain.

Re:Daniel Ek commits to investing €1B in European ”moonshots” by marmaduke on Sunday September 27, 2020 @04:35AM (#24605144)
the project is actually in 3 stages, the first 2 dubious, the one which just started in April is worth reconsidering, see my sibling comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24605138