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If it turns out all you need to make STP superconductors is a furnace (granted, a good lab furnace) and some lead and potassium, there are thousands of foundrie
by duped 3y ago
If it turns out all you need to make STP superconductors is a furnace (granted, a good lab furnace) and some lead and potassium, there are thousands of foundries across the world that will start making it and its variants with no regard for IP rights. Semiconductors regularly use similar processes during production and they're not the hard ones, so it seems like good news if it's just the recipe that needs to be copied.
It's pretty great for humanity if it turns out to be real and relatively simple to produce.
- tomrod 3y agoSeems reasonable that such a pressing tech gets a high reward. Say, $200M for each inventor, then humanity is set?
- javajosh 3y ago10 million gives a person a nice home or two in most places people want to live, plus a six figure income for the rest of their life. 200 million is private jet money.
- worrycue 3y agoWhy not though.
- Rebelgecko 3y agoI'm tired of gofundmes
- sillysaurusx 3y agoWhose $200M? That’s the rub. I agree with you morally, and I think most people would agree that inventors of fundamental tech should be as well-compensated as founders who “merely” bring it to market. But were Einstein or Feynman wealthy, or Newton before them? Perhaps it’s the scientific fate to be at odds with capitalism. On the other hand, no amount of money can immortalize you the way this type of discovery would.
- psfried 3y agoNewton at least became quite wealthy. Dunno about the others
- sillysaurusx 3y agoInteresting! Do you know how?
- Asparagirl 3y agoNewton was a member of the British elite, he had income from Cambridge University, and he was first the Warden and later the Master of the Royal Mint. He was also experienced in investments. Nevertheless, he also got sucked into the infamous South Sea mania of 1720, which was basically the monkey JPG of its day, and consequently he lost a great deal of his wealth. “Newton's financial misadventures in the South Sea Bubble”: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2018.0018 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2018.001...
- pvaldes 3y agoNot having children helps a lot with that
- gizmo686 3y agoThe inventors will absolutely be well compensated (assuming their work pans out). They will get a patent and either sell or license that patent. That patented will probably end up being held by a rent seaker, who will extract money from the entire globe for the next 20 years until the patent expires. Given that, why not have a government spend a bunch of money to buy the rights, then release it to the public domain. If I had to guess, the scientists would be willing to sell it into the public domain for less money then they would to a private company; however they probably would not be willing to donate it to the public domain when there is massive private money on the table. Given all if this, the fact that there will likely not even be an offer for this by the government is a policy choice that we will be paying for for the next 20 years.
- topspin 3y ago> then humanity is set No. Whatever problems LK-99 might solve will be rapidly replaced by new, even more pressing, "problems."
- UberFly 3y agoI think they meant: "then humanity is set... to benefit from the discovery." Just a guess.
- throwawayqqq11 3y ago[flagged]
- tomrod 3y agoThat is exactly what I meant. Thanks for clarifying. EDIT: to the dead sibling comment: nope, not denying climate change. Was speaking in reference to giving the inventors enough incentive to give up the patent while the technology still being wildly beneficial to humanity, should it be proven useful.
- mcpackieh 3y agoWhat's the rush? If it's real we'll figure it out soon enough. If it takes days or weeks or even months, that will make little difference in the long run.
- joshspankit 3y agoI’d very much prefer that approach the the current one. I’d like to see important discoveries free from “IP” and patent encumbrances and instead of inventors (hopefully) getting paid based on market viability, getting paid based on the positive different it makes to the health of the world. Just imagine the renaissance on fresh food, for example.
- pfdietz 3y agoIf it turned out to be that easy, it should already have been replicated.
- fit2rule 3y ago[dead]
- junofan 3y agoSomebody claims to have done it. Complains the instructions from the paper suck. https://twitter.com/iris_igb/status/1685341730902577153 https://twitter.com/iris_igb/status/1685341730902577153
- pfdietz 3y agoHere we are, two weeks later, and the bloom is off the rose. It's turned out as one should have expected, the product of sloppiness and gun jumping.