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How do you solve for 'work for 5 years on open source project, get it to some degree of popularity, watch AWS making a service out of your code without paying you a dime'?
A new licensing model where it's prohibitive to make a profit off of this work.
That being said, do you have a concrete licensing model in mind?
EDIT: This quote seems relevant[1]:
> It is fair to say that, in general, no problems have been exhausted; instead, men have been exhausted by the problems.
[1] https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-most-important-scient...
We don't have to look far in any direction for solutions that improve our education systems, our research output, and the general welfare of humanity. Unfortunately, the forces of corruption will always be strong, and it will take a more creative and imaginative people to implement them.
The article says... "that research effort is rising substantially while research productivity is declining sharply". No surprise there. Nowadays, Universities have to become paper mills in order to get funding. Also... Risky research and cross disciplinary research is a sure fire way not to get tenure. As to the question, where new ideas come from... I teach creativity... the literature is in near agreement on this t…
How do you teach creativity? What does such a class look like? I'm curious what a syllabus for your class looks like.
Had a similar discussion yesterday and I am aching for that conceptual freshness. What are all the non-Elon, non-besos plebs going to do for a day job? Our industries are too mature for easy growth. Cars, computers, space are done for the plebs, we need another industry of easy growth to pull this ship along. If history repeats, manufacturing will become king again. In the arts with near infinite creative control lat…
Few ideas: Many personal robots and services - we'll do almost nothing. So we'll have more time for hobbies, which will need more tools etc . Building a green economy. Higher quality food more often. More healthcare, with aging etc. And maybe more emphasis on selling care. The real problem is this: why hire humans do all those jobs, when machines could do(or create substitutes) for most of those new jobs ?
Compressing design work from hours or weeks of thinking about different forms down to a few minutes of machine learning pattern recognition cpu cycles, means we have to move our knowledge work from massaging clay into new Porsche designs to higher level abstractions about what function in society cars can fulfill. The abstractions get higher, we can fit more into our time on this planet and the detailed oriented will be required to keep all of this from breaking down and succumbing to entropy.
Humans at the bottom of the chain will have nothing to do except hold the world together, people falling out of work, machines breaking and money and time being wasted away on excessive drug use and manufacturing for pleasure instead of progress too much can grind this potential for new life to a halt.
Agriculture is direly needed in the dirty thirties if we are to avoid repeating the hunger caused by the dust bowls in the 30s. A green base is fundamental to surviving the crash of the roaring twenties. Automating farming and increasing food production to multiple times of what the US can demand is a life saving purpose. God only hopes you have ‘nothing’ to do when it comes to crass commercial works. Building self sustainable farming for homes so that families can survive on and off grid is also has a potential for great application.
Funny that Scott wrote this exactly one year ago today.
Clearly it's not totally obvious, or it would have made its way into the original paper. Still, the barrier to a Wikipedia-worthy computer science discovery, has risen somewhat since then.
Edit Come to think of it, this is a good example for explaining what we mean by 'improved algorithm' to non-software folks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle#F...
The article says... "that research effort is rising substantially while research productivity is declining sharply". No surprise there. Nowadays, Universities have to become paper mills in order to get funding. Also... Risky research and cross disciplinary research is a sure fire way not to get tenure. As to the question, where new ideas come from... I teach creativity... the literature is in near agreement on this t…
> New Ideas also come from new technologies. This may be why it seems like it's harder to find new ideas now. It was relatively easy during the waves of "do X on a computer", "do X on the Web", and "do X on a phone", but now we're waiting on the next transformative idea that will allow everything old to be reinvented again.
The article says... "that research effort is rising substantially while research productivity is declining sharply". No surprise there. Nowadays, Universities have to become paper mills in order to get funding. Also... Risky research and cross disciplinary research is a sure fire way not to get tenure. As to the question, where new ideas come from... I teach creativity... the literature is in near agreement on this t…
For those curious about the impact of neodymium magnets in the creation of the Walkman, as I was, I found this: https://hackaday.com/2019/07/22/forget-the-walkman-its-the-h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samarium%E2%80%93cobalt_magnet