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Perhaps I have a cynical take, but I would guess that the labs are primarily verifying the claims to themselves to identify ways to make profitable research or
by psychlops 3y ago
Perhaps I have a cynical take, but I would guess that the labs are primarily verifying the claims to themselves to identify ways to make profitable research or production lines. They want to fund their own labs.
Publishing verified claims to help others would be secondary.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoThat’s a cynical tale, but once you realize that profit is a useful way to signal to technologists what the world finds useful in aggregate, it means there is more likelihood that the science gets out of the lab to the real world. tldr; for good or bad, humanity hasn’t found an incentive mechanism better than capitalism for deploying tech at scale.
- hungryforcodes 3y agoIsn't this one of those game theory scenarios? Some labs could profit by not announcing replication, but others could by announcing it as quickly as possible? Thus not all labs will behave the same way, unless they are all colluding which seems unlikely.