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Every now and then we still experience the power of collaborative work fueled by open source and not driven by money but curiosity and collegiality. This is the
by crocowhile 2y ago
Every now and then we still experience the power of collaborative work fueled by open source and not driven by money but curiosity and collegiality. This is the thing I miss the most from the early internet years.
- xvector 2y agoAll this AI work is definitely driven by money but it's super cool either way. I'm so excited to be living through these innovations.
- szundi 2y agoMoney is in a lot of cases driven by need - so no conflicts
- oblio 2y agoThe conflicts come later when the people that provided the money start pulling on those strings again.
- michaelt 2y agoPretty clear conflict between crocowhile saying "not driven by money but curiosity and collegiality" and xvector saying "All this AI work is definitely driven by money"
- svara 2y agoNeed in itself is amoral. There's a reason people have been talking about which human desires are virtues and which are vices for millennia.
- bflesch 2y ago"be the change you want to see in the world" - just start doing it. It's amazing how differently people interact with each other when collaborating on a passion project. For me, opensource software is the best way to do it. Pick a topic you're passionate about and start contributing somewhere :)
- crocowhile 2y agoOh, I do lots of open source. Everything my lab does is released as open source (eg https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2003026 https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...) We've never patented anything.
- bflesch 2y agothat looks like amazing work :)
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