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There's no hard line in the technology. This means that a ban is pointless because the landscape is going to keep changing. It's interesting to compare this to
by golemotron 3y ago
There's no hard line in the technology. This means that a ban is pointless because the landscape is going to keep changing.
It's interesting to compare this to other situations where, say, law tries to create lines that aren't really there and the incentive to ignore imaginary ones is greater than the incentive to keep them.
This seems to be a very common phenomenon with technology.
- pxc 3y agoIn the case of Nature, it functions as a statement of values that scientists publishing with Nature will be happy to comply with to the best of their abilities. I doubt that the editors are under some illusion that the nominal ban will create a hard line in reality. I'd be surprised to learn that that is their idea of success with this measure.