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Would open sourcing all cancer research and allowing anyone to contribute and share in the open source community... would that assist in potentially finding a c

Would open sourcing all cancer research and allowing anyone to contribute and share in the open source community... would that assist in potentially finding a cure/treatment for various cancers or would the profit motive be required for these research to be successful?

rolltiide 7y ago
There are a few case studies on that Protein folding and grid computing networks are based on altruism and enthusiast novelty interest “wow I can use my spare computational power on this global network of other enthusiasts to cure cancer”, you know, novel in 2004. As soon as some enthusiasts introduced cryptocurrency to these networks, see Curecoin and Gridcoin, users of those quickly became the most significant contributors to those networks (until those particular crypto currencies’ economic models fell apart). It wasn’t “spare computational resources” it was capital investment for a yield in those digital assets. I believe there are communities still experimenting with this regarding protein folding and looking for mutations iteratively. So a profit motive will always beat out a non-market based approach, which isn’t really news
- someone7x 7y ago
  > So a profit motive will always beat out a non-market based approach, which isn’t really news Call me a dreamer, but I wonder if that would remain true in a UBI-style environment?
  - rolltiide 7y ago
    if there is a scarce useful resource being used and acquired then yes?
    - gmueckl 7y ago
      I think people would be tempted to try more and crazier things to earn more money because the risk of failure is lessened in that scenario.
JudgeWapner 7y ago
how would any random person test their cures? Joe Schmoe thinks fasting for a week and then consuming 100 ml/kg of deionized Jagermeister will stop leukemia dead in its tracks. So which dying cancer patient does he get to test on?
wasdfff 7y ago
If its NIH funded its automatically open sourced 1 year after publication.

rolltiide 7y ago

There are a few case studies on that Protein folding and grid computing networks are based on altruism and enthusiast novelty interest “wow I can use my spare computational power on this global network of other enthusiasts to cure cancer”, you know, novel in 2004. As soon as some enthusiasts introduced cryptocurrency to these networks, see Curecoin and Gridcoin, users of those quickly became the most significant contributors to those networks (until those particular crypto currencies’ economic models fell apart). It wasn’t “spare computational resources” it was capital investment for a yield in those digital assets. I believe there are communities still experimenting with this regarding protein folding and looking for mutations iteratively. So a profit motive will always beat out a non-market based approach, which isn’t really news

someone7x 7y ago
> So a profit motive will always beat out a non-market based approach, which isn’t really news Call me a dreamer, but I wonder if that would remain true in a UBI-style environment?
- rolltiide 7y ago
  if there is a scarce useful resource being used and acquired then yes?
  - gmueckl 7y ago
    I think people would be tempted to try more and crazier things to earn more money because the risk of failure is lessened in that scenario.

JudgeWapner 7y ago

how would any random person test their cures? Joe Schmoe thinks fasting for a week and then consuming 100 ml/kg of deionized Jagermeister will stop leukemia dead in its tracks. So which dying cancer patient does he get to test on?

wasdfff 7y ago

If its NIH funded its automatically open sourced 1 year after publication.