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And it makes sense. If you publish some state-of-the-art algorithm then you're basically helping your competition, and you don't get anything back from them. So
by oxydite 2mo ago
And it makes sense. If you publish some state-of-the-art algorithm then you're basically helping your competition, and you don't get anything back from them. So you publish bare minimum in small articles on your website, only to gain people's/investors' interest, and just hope that you didn't share too much. And it'll always be like that, unless the root cause changes - intentives. And the main incentives right now are money and power.
- WithinReason 2mo agoWhat other incentives can you imagine for Homo Sapiens?
- petesergeant 2mo agoGlory and altruism
- WithinReason 2mo agoPeople only care about those because it brings them more resources. People seek glory for power. Altruism is not a stable strategy so will be exploited.
- petesergeant 2mo agoTrivially disproved by self-sacrifice in the persual of both
- WithinReason 2mo agoself-sacrifice often brings resources to your kin, and is also easily exploitable
- oxydite 2mo agoWell... I can image incentives like health/survival/independence in case of war or other cataclysm. But this is pretty drastic, nothing else comes to mind though
- witx 2mo agoYou know also what was the biggest help for these companies? All the data they scrapped from the internet, the books they torrented, the open source projects whose licenses they did not respect. The least these companies can do is to publish everything they own
- nlitened 2mo ago> The least these companies can do is to publish everything they own Well, being able to talk to superintelligent all-knowing savant 24/7 on your phone for $20 a month is also something
- witx 2mo agoYou people really have rotten morals
- nlitened 2mo agoWell if it's moral for gatekeepers of talent to hoard immense intellectual rights to be protected by the violence of the state, then I'm immoral in that sense. Information wants to be free
- throwaway132448 2mo ago> Information wants to be free Only ever said by people who have never put in the effort to create any information of value.