[oxydite]

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.

[witx]

You 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]

> 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]

You people really have rotten morals

[nlitened]

Well 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]

> Information wants to be free

Only ever said by people who have never put in the effort to create any information of value.

[WithinReason]

What other incentives can you imagine for Homo Sapiens?

[oxydite]

Well... 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

[petesergeant]

Glory and altruism

[WithinReason]

People 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]

Trivially disproved by self-sacrifice in the persual of both

[WithinReason]

self-sacrifice often brings resources to your kin, and is also easily exploitable