- The incentives are alright. Publishers who now start publishing too much low quality slop will lose readers (who has time to read all those low quality publications). Less readers leads to less citations, which will drag dawn their impact factor resulting in less authors willing to pay a high publication fee.
For those fields with an existing market, meaning there is more than one high quality journal, the market will provide the right incentives for those publishers.
- > There is currently no real European equivalent to the [..] Wikipedia monopoly
8 out of the 10 largest Wikipedias are European languages...
- It really depends on what exactly you want to bet on and on what timeframe. More short term bet? Puts on the AI companies or an AI ETF. Do you assume that the rest of tech stays up even if AI pops? Then you could short some AI ETF and hedge with long QQQ. (=betting that the AI subset of Nasdaq will underperform relative to the Nasdaq.
- That would be a highly bureaucratic solution with significant overheads. Would everyone pay extra tax per kWh or just AI computers? Tax it on the producer or consumer side? How would you verify that a particular data center is "bad computation" and needs a different tax rate on its energy usage.
Should an AI data center from pharmaceuticals or biotech startup be taxed extra per kWh, even if the AI is purely used for medical research?
- > Taxing wealth is much harder on a practical and algorithmic level than taxing income.
I find this argument somewhat unconvincing. Where is most of the wealth? In hard assets, such as real estate and financial assets, such as stocks and bonds. The former are very difficult to hide, for obvious reasons. As for the latter, the ownership of every single share is recorded in large databases (e.g. DTCC, Clearstream and Euroclear). In that sense, the "physical location" of most of the wealth is well known, so in theory it should really not be difficult to tax it.
- That really depends on the particular algorithm.
- That analogy sounds good on the surface, but breaks down quickly. In the context of sport/athletics it's your body doing the work, which is difficult to change without exercise (even with steroids). But for knowledge work, as long as you have access to the llm machine, you can quickly pretend it's your work. For students it can be very deceiving, they type their ideas on a device, one button fixes their spelling, another button "fixes" their wording. The line is very blurry, literally the divider in the UI between these two buttons.
- The stock market has been dominated by a single industry many times in history: railroads (Union Pacific), oil (Standard Oil, later Exxon), steel (U.S. Steel), banking (JPM), industrials (GE), telecom (ATT), computer hardware (IBM, MSFT, Intel), smartphones (Apple), consumer internet (Facebook, Google, Amazon) and now "AI" (Nvidia, Magnificent 7).
Isn't the interesting question now: what follows? Or does history end with Mag7?
- What's the difference between your examples? Both sentences could be an opinion or a fact.
- A generous welfare state (like the Nordics or Switzerland) does not necessarily mean that the middle class is well off with lots of resources for kids. Usually it's the middle class (+upper class) that pays for the generous welfare state, but gets almost none of the benefits. You don't get/need the welfare, if you earn enough to be considered middle class.
- That's a great analogy! "Sharkware"
- Microsoft Teams goes hold my beer and downloads more than 75 MB of Javascript.
- They didn't coin the term, there is nothing "classical" about their interpretation of the terminology.
- That bug has been around for years. I always wondered if that was deliberate. I guess that Microsoft support answer settles the question...
>Sorry for that we may have no enough resources about the Linux environment.
- Even if you fly them in and out, they'd still need a work visa. Controlling an avatar-robot could thus indeed be seen as a scheme to circumvent working visas.
- Says the amendment: "Congress shall make no law...."
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/
Why would an US constitution amendment have any effect in Russia?
- > anyone who dares to criticize officials
> by insulting or slandering someone
That's a bit of a straw man isn't it?
The German government makes it very easy to point fingers at them: The German minister of economics and "vice president" (vice chancellor) had so much free time and capacity to sue more than 800 citizens! https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1493232/umfra...
The vice president of a G7 country suing old men because they called him a numbnut on the internet is ridiculous.
- Sure, someone on CME will gladly sell you these options. That futures market has open bets with notional value of more than 10 billion usd. How much money you can make? Depends on how much capital you're willing to bet and the used leverage.
https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/cryptocurrencies/bitcoin/bi...
- The advantage of migrating the whole organization is that it's no longer your problem if a .doc file looks slightly different for someone outside your organization. As long as it works internally.
As soon as you cross different organization IT systems, documents don't look the same anyways: e.g. local office vs Microsoft 365 online.
That top tier publishers create new low-tier journals for this market shows that they are very well aware of these incentives and risks. They are not flooding their top journals with low quality OA "pay to publish" articles, which was the argument from OP.