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Seems interesting. Paul Christiano looked into some of these figures, and without deeper investigation I'm happy to use figures from that.
It suggests R(0) = $0.5b, and B = $200B. Putting that into the spreadsheet gets a benefit:cost ratio of about 140 to 1.