[mensetmanusman]

It is illegal in places that have rule of law.

This is to create a risk reduction mechanism for investing in capital to make this at scale, which will cost on the order of $100-500M to scale for world use through trial and error.

If IP is ignored, no business will invest in the initial experiments due to first mover disadvantage in game theory.

[Iulioh]

>If IP is ignored, no business will invest in the initial experiments due to first mover disadvantage in game theory.

Not if you belive that

[mensetmanusman]

This has been shown to be historically true, because startup costs can be tens to hundreds of million in R&D.

The business that spends will have their workers immediately poached if they don’t have IP protecting their initial startup costs.