The cat's kinda out of the bag at this point. But a non-profit public trust that acted as a patent-store to enforce the public dissemination of any derivative works based on the ideas maintained by the patent-store could make a huge difference ten, twenty years down the road. It would need an initial endowment to get started, retain a lawyer or two to manage it.

And then, publicize the hell out of it, evangelize the foundation over every college campus with a CS department. When students have established new state of art with ML, they can toss the design to the foundation in addition to arxiv, and where ever else they might publish.

You got it.

What exactly would that pushback be? Boycott? Post mean things?

About the only thing that could potentially prevent this is if the algorithms that we put into the public domain are protected by a license like the GPL, or something similar.

I haven't been following code releases, so I don't know if that's being done. And to be honest, I doubt most of the information flow is going by code. Rather, it's in the papers.

Is there a way to protect papers by a "GPL"? I honestly doubt it, because at that level, we're dealing strictly with ideas. And the only way to protect an idea is to patent them.

Perhaps the community, as a whole, should start patenting all their ideas, and then assigning the patents to a public trust that ensures that any derivative technology is published freely, too, under the same patent type.

If you were on your deathbed with only days to live, you wouldn't get it?

Sure about that?

How long will it take before the antivaxx community demonizes this mRNA solution and others like it?

How is on the damn launch pad any different?

Also, nothing is static. Everything is in motion. The pillars of creation are clouds, and like clouds here on earth, they change. These are just on the scale of light years, so change at the macro level takes time. Still, I would expect noticeable change in the decades between when Hubble's original shot was taken, and JWST.

You're right! Kiloparsec would be 3,300.

The expansion of the universe is 73 kilometers per second per megaparsec plus or minus 1. There are 3.3 light years to a parsec. So a megaparsec would be 3,300 light years. At the scale of the solar system, the amount of displacement would be negligible.

Without work and competition providing the basis of value and the distribution of that value throughout our populace, what takes their place?

Egalitarianism?

Every attempt humanity has made at Egalitarianism has resulted in an oppressive police-state autocracy.

If we want to "re-evaluate our relationship with work", this is the first issue to address.

Edit: downvotes? You do realize that every attempt at true socialism and communism have failed, right? And from the ashes of these emerged the Soviet system who's offspring are now attempting to pummel Ukraine into the dark ages, followed by the CCP.

If we all no longer have to work, what do you think is going to happen? The owners of all the automated systems will just hand out money to everyone, and in such a way that everyone will get exactly what they feel they need?

Or, will we attempt to nationalize the means of production so that the government / party / central authority owns all the means of production and thus determines how resources are distributed?

And how do we determine who gets what? Are we all equal? Are some pigs more equal than other farm animals?

Downvotes without a response tell me you just don't like to be challenged with really thinking about the issue.

This is supposed to be a sub about the future, right?

I'm actually extremely disappointed in the quality and caliber here.

Country Music has already demonstrated this technology.