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Explain why we should not therefore allow and even encourage students to copy their homework, research projects, and exam answers from one another, or from thei

Explain why we should not therefore allow and even encourage students to copy their homework, research projects, and exam answers from one another, or from their instructor's grading key. While we're at it, let's force companies to share all of their internal research and content with each other, so that in the very best of scenarios everything turns into a giant bureaucratic monoculture as organizations optimize for least friction of copying data, and the lowest common denominator solutions compatible with that goal. Do the same for authors and composers and nuclear weapon designers. The value of individual contribution immediately becomes worth exactly what was paid for it. A world that functions according to a rule that all individual knowledge work is worth zero compensation cannot exist except as a parasite on the back of one that rejects this premise. This does not excuse the opposite abuse, of charging rent purely to distribute gatekept data without contributing anything of special value to it.

_Algernon_ 3y ago
Students do homework for learning purposes, not because they are producing anything valuable. Copying something (eg. a movie) is a different issue from copying something and lying about it being your own work. I'd celebrate if we ever reach the point were we are in a post-scarcity world for physical goods. But we are already there for intellectual "property" and it's being ruined by lawyers and bureaucrats.
- advael 3y ago
  I do think the paradigm of intellectual property is fundamentally broken, but you can't claim we're post-scarcity for knowledge when vast swaths of the economy are knowledge work and economic viability is still a requirement to live I don't even think you can have "post-scarcity" dynamics in a piecemeal manner like this, because any erosion of scarcity is an erosion of value in an environment that is ruled by economic paradigms that equate the two
throwaway14356 3y ago
OT: My mind wants to play with tax funded rewards for volentary sharing. If its worth something we may bid and they may refuse, counter bid or release into the wild. We aren't always imaginative enough to fund research in advance. (put mildly)

_Algernon_ 3y ago

Students do homework for learning purposes, not because they are producing anything valuable. Copying something (eg. a movie) is a different issue from copying something and lying about it being your own work. I'd celebrate if we ever reach the point were we are in a post-scarcity world for physical goods. But we are already there for intellectual "property" and it's being ruined by lawyers and bureaucrats.

advael 3y ago
I do think the paradigm of intellectual property is fundamentally broken, but you can't claim we're post-scarcity for knowledge when vast swaths of the economy are knowledge work and economic viability is still a requirement to live I don't even think you can have "post-scarcity" dynamics in a piecemeal manner like this, because any erosion of scarcity is an erosion of value in an environment that is ruled by economic paradigms that equate the two

throwaway14356 3y ago

OT: My mind wants to play with tax funded rewards for volentary sharing. If its worth something we may bid and they may refuse, counter bid or release into the wild. We aren't always imaginative enough to fund research in advance. (put mildly)