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In fact given everybody is going to be using these tools - and for high tech compananies this is fundamentally where you compete - if you reduce your R&D workforce you are going to…

> Yes - my wife’s advisor literally told her that the goal should be getting as close as you could to stapling your published papers together with an introduction. Indeed - in fact…

To your point - in terms of domestic services - ownership isn't the only model. After all human cleaning services don't work like that either these days ( even in the American sout…

Most thesis are never read because anything worth sharing with the wider world ( and some that isn't ) is highly likely to have been published as a paper - not because the work in …

It would need to be beautifully done science - indeed the level of rigour required to confidently show no effect is probably quite a bit larger than the level of rigour required to…

Ultimately the existence of the Odyssey doesn't stop you writing your own story - the creative universe is infinite. This is completely different from IP around an invention - you …

> it's whether society benefits as a whole. There is a big difference between not being able to republish or cut and paste from the works of JK Rowling and not being able to make a…

It can be simultaneously be true that some of his more vocal opponents support things like hereditarianism & erroneously conflate genetics with race [1], and there is also a case t…

The letter misses out the key issue here. Should the worlds public knowledge be enclosed by a few powerful private companies or should it be available to all? The original vision f…

For inventions if you don't make money off it in the first 20 years you are unlikely to ever make any money off it - as the invention space moves on. That's not the same for a work…

> but disagree the issue is the doctors themselves Who's fault was the opioid epidemic in the US? I know a lot of blame has been levelled at the pharma involved, and rightly so, ho…

Yes and no. While there are some centralized decisions ( we are paying only for one round of IVF, or this drug isn't good value for money ), most of it is delegated to front line d…

Indeed. It's been argued that people intensive activities, like healthcare, thus become relatively more expensive as other, more automation friendly, industries become highly optin…

Markets require information to operate efficiently, but it's not actually in the interest of the companies involved. Who wants to have to endlessly ruthlessly compete? They would m…

While the Shatner portrayal of Kirk is hard not to like, I was always slightly irritated by the recurring transparent theme of gut winning over reason ( but then I became a scienti…

Good leadership makes a huge difference - whether that be big or small. I've seen it myself - in particular it's amazing much of a difference good leadership can make at a huge com…

Perhaps you've watched too many classic StarTrek episodes as a child and are channelling the Spock versus Kirk leadership theme.

All models/data sources are biased - you need to understand inherent biases in any data source. The first point is a strawman - these models are not going to be used to set foreign…

If the online retailer has a no quibble returns policy - then at there is at least a strong incentive to minimise returns, rather than oversell.

>> The creation of value is me taking energy from the sun and converting that into a chair. > Which requires money to do. No it doesn't require money. It requires energy. Money is …

But aren't you confusing the means of exchange with the creation of value. The creation of value is me taking energy from the sun and converting that into a chair. You lending me m…

Sure - but that's a meta question of whether the current economic/political systems are delivering good allocation of resources for whatever target function you favour. And that's …

Why not? What am I missing. If you loan me 10 pounds and I simply keep it or spend it but refuse to pay you back - aren't I the winner and you the loser? Claiming that the market i…

Who funds the majority of cutting edge scientific research? Is it companies or is it governments? If governments around the world see LLMs built from public knowledge as pre-compet…

Money isn't lost per se, it's transferred. ie for every loser there is a winner. Obvious ones are those who can extract value from this companies now ( high salaries/bonus etc ), s…