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Re:Neuralink 'Participant 1' Noland Arbaugh says his whole l... by regularfry on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @04:48AM (#45037004)
There's a spectrum here, though. There's a difference between "nobody would find value in the work" and "nobody can figure out how to get VC-level returns from the work on VC timescales."
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Re:Neuralink 'Participant 1' Noland Arbaugh says his whole l... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @05:20AM (#45037201)
> a difference between "nobody would find value in the work" and "nobody can figure out how to get VC-level returns from the work on VC timescales”

In theory, yes. But other than maybe rare-disease research, I’m struggling to think of an example in medical research.

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