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In this case the "perfect" and the "good" are an order of magnitude different in the utility they will provide for society.
by jacoblyles 15y ago
In this case the "perfect" and the "good" are an order of magnitude different in the utility they will provide for society.
- pjscott 15y agoAnd they are not an order of magnitude different in difficulty. Witness the success of PLoS and the Journal of Machine Learning and (to some extent) arXiv. The journals coordinate peer review and provide aggregation; now that we have the internet, there are better, much cheaper ways to do it.
- michael_dorfman 15y agoIs there any reason to believe that this is the case? I'm a member of the ACM and the IEEE, and a lot of other people are; it doesn't seem to me that the modest dues are significantly hindering progress in the field. If, due to some unexplained fortune, the ACM and IEEE were to drop their paywalls tomorrow, and grant free access to all, how much would really change?