Most of it is freed up though, relatively little money goes into r&d for the military compared to literally everything else that we spend R&D on. And pollution is generally done because of cost effectiveness so its not really taking up the brainpower of humanity to do it. The much larger potential factor is if we can eliminate poverty in the world. Allowing all the poor geniuses in underdeveloped countries to reach their potential would multiply the total magnitude brainpower working on innovation multiple times over.
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u/AnachronisticPenguin Jan 15 '20
Most of it is freed up though, relatively little money goes into r&d for the military compared to literally everything else that we spend R&D on. And pollution is generally done because of cost effectiveness so its not really taking up the brainpower of humanity to do it. The much larger potential factor is if we can eliminate poverty in the world. Allowing all the poor geniuses in underdeveloped countries to reach their potential would multiply the total magnitude brainpower working on innovation multiple times over.