The project that does this would be presumably be defunded on succeeding because none of the techniques it developed work any more.
But wouldn’t you forgive its funders? Some people construct pressures for it to be self-funding, by tarring its funders by association, but that is the most dangerous possible model, because it creates a situation where they have the ability and incentive to perpetuate themselves beyond the completion of their mission.
The project that does this would be presumably be defunded on succeeding because none of the techniques it developed work any more.
But wouldn’t you forgive its funders? Some people construct pressures for it to be self-funding, by tarring its funders by association, but that is the most dangerous possible model, because it creates a situation where they have the ability and incentive to perpetuate themselves beyond the completion of their mission.