Governments should place few if any restrictions on scientific research and development Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take In develop

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Governments should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and
development.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the
recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing
and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the
recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples
shape your position.

Any Government considers national interest as its primary regulation. Its actions are also, unsurprisingly, aligned with these interests, which prompt it to take decisions to curb any threat to the nation. But, while doing so, no thought is given to its impact on Mankind as a whole. These decisions might very well be destructive for humanity even though they might favour the growth of the country. Sometimes, these decisions are so short sighted that it may even lead to the country itself going backwards. Hence, I feel that governments should not have the power to limit the scientific endeavour of the scientific community, which constantly tries to widen the horizons of knowledge and provide new avenues of human growth and prosperity.

A very recent example can seen in the form of Chandrayaan-3 landing. ISRO had launched a spacecraft named Chandrayaan-3 a few months back, which intended to study soil conditions and atmosphere on the south pole of the Moon. This was the 3rd attempt by the Indian agency at trying to get a rover onto the moon. It landed successfully on the Moon’s south pole on 23rd August, and this mission is expected to provide extremely vital information about the Moon, which would be helpful for the space research community in the upcoming missions. It could also heat up the space race, which would encourage more organisations to conduct expeditions to the moon and beyond. If we look at the overall economic condition of India, we see that the per capita income is low, and a large fraction of the population lives below the poverty line. Due to this reason, the Indian Government provides a very tiny fraction of its GDP to the ISRO for its missions. But this is where we see that the Government is very short sighted in its approach. Had the Government provided more funding to the ISRO, the organisation would have transformed India into a space research and venture hub. The enormous space market would have opened up tons of opportunities for the Indian youth. And it would have marked a huge leap in the development of mankind.

Another recent incident involving Artificial Intelligence also highlights this crucial fact. In a congressional hearing of the United States, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI requested that the US government should place restrictions on AI related research, as it poses threat to the entire humanity. As enormous as this threat might sound, any moderately knowledgeable scientific researcher in the AI community knows that AI can only automate human chores by using large amounts of data (also mostly generated by humans). There is no realisable threat to the humankind due to AI, as it has no consciousness of its own, but only knows how to replicate human behaviour on an intricate task. It is speculated that OpenAI, being the most dominant player in AI research, wants to continue this hegemony, and is therefore doing anything at hand to make it possible. But the US Government is blinded by the doomsday picture painted by OpenAI, and might take steps to curb AI research, which could lead to tremendous stagnation to AI research, that has the capacity to revolutionize everything from health sector to the energy sector.

Thus, we see that, Governments are not the right authority to control the research and development in the scientific community, as they do not have the scientific mindset or the scientific foresight that is necessary to understand the consequences of research and development. Any limitations must be decided by the community itself, as they are the ones who know the impact of the work, and would be the most competent authority to make decisions in this regard.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'see' or 'be seen'?
Suggestion: see; be seen
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Suggestion:
... using large amounts of data also mostly generated by humans. There is no realisa...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, look, may, so, therefore, thus, well, while, i feel

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 33.0505617978 148% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 79.0 58.6224719101 135% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3059.0 2235.4752809 137% => OK
No of words: 614.0 442.535393258 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98208469055 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.977853291 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85197755166 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 307.0 215.323595506 143% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 948.6 704.065955056 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 9.0 1.77640449438 507% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.873918281 60.3974514979 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.36 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.56 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.92 5.21951772744 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.167152121409 0.243740707755 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0442135598743 0.0831039109588 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0405275955697 0.0758088955206 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10135600995 0.150359130593 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00934348190677 0.0667264976115 14% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 157.0 100.480337079 156% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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