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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2024
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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You are mistaken in my reasoning, I'm saying a person with a well paid university position (which gives him access to money and the university library, which I assume pays for access to their books/papers and doesn't libgen or equivs them) should understand that a lot of training material is indeed not free. This being in addition to the university paying him for his own research, and him prob being pretty annoyed if he was replaced with an iSandberg bot and now was homeless. (This is in addition to what Yud said).
Turns out making papers about replacing the earth with fruit is something Anders-GPT can do perfectly well on its own.
wrong assumption tbh. the open-access fight is happening because the publisher cartels are extortionate and access is extremely uneven. I (personally/directly) know more than a few people presently in academia who roll libgen on a daily basis because it is easier/quicker/the only option/the only actually working option for the things they need
it's often easier to pirate the published version of your own paper than to access it by official means
Fair enough, my bad. No idea it had gotten that bad. But still, I wasn't intending to rag on libgen, just his idea that these things (which also includes education) are free already.
if you want to get really mad, shibboleth "elsevier". it'll be a speedrun of learning some of the worst of what's fucked atm