We need to get rid of the concept of 'patents' in science entirely. Science isn't business or art as your work in it isn't aesthetic, it is a model to explain a specific way of looking at a process or a thing in this universe that will in the future be replaced by a better model.
It will probably be used by someone in the future to discover something else or better. If someone cites your work and literally copy pastes your entire report, it doesn't matter as it isn't affecting the long term benefits of that finding. What should matter is how true or empirically replicatable your findings are.
>hey let's get rid of 100% of the monetary incentive to continue doing science
why don't we just all revert to communism while we're at it
Evan Brown
this should never come into play, the only thing differentiating science from business and religion is that its predicated on an honest application of skill and intelligence. Destroying this by underpaying or coercing scientists with the journal/peer-review system is dangerous for the species. There will be long term consequences to letting the market decide the priorities of humanity user
Logan Morales
Who instead should decide the priorities of humanity? The market is just the applied, unconscious wants and need of humanity. What better than humans to decide what humans want and need?
Isaiah Thomas
>The market is just the applied, unconscious wants and need of humanity. no it's not >Who instead should decide the priorities of humanity? rational planning according to social need
Carson Barnes
So you're conflating the patent system with underpayment and bureaucratic coercion, why?
Austin White
>rational planning according to social need
which works great until you realize that an authoritarian politburo is shitty at responding to the fickle demands of a human economy and ends up Holodomor-ing millions of people
Communism was an alright hypothesis written by a chill dude with a beard. Humans tested it experimentally and the results all point to the fact that it sucks ass
Joshua Campbell
Because the (((big corporations))) will eat up every idea immediately and have a monopoly on it from day one. This is a stupid childish idea
Justin Morgan
>no it's not What is the market if not that? The market is the natural sway of human wants and needs. >rational planning according to social need Who knows more about what humanity needs than humanity?
Evan Rogers
>The market is the natural sway of human wants and needs this doesn't mean what you want it to mean, nor is it logical. >Who knows more about what humanity needs than humanity? AI and not the aggregate interests of massive populations most Fortune 500 firms are owned and run by white people as are most large European and 99% of large Asian firms
