[MURG] Uploading IP (intellectual property)

[Yan King Yin]

From: "Randal A. Koene" <rak at minduploading.org>

>> >like GNU and PLOS.
>>
>> As I pointed out before, IP does not prevent disclosure or
>> publication, it actually facilitates openness.
>
>I hope you do know that there is a big difference between the intentions
>of GNU and patents.

I do respect the open-source folks' wish to make software freely
available. Not only do they want to give out free software but
they also *want* to see more of it happen. But software takes
effort to create, and I don't see why it's superior to make a
profit out of something else such as maintenance. In fact, one
can easily point out problems in federal funding, private funding,
or open source. The economic problem is very complex and most of
us simply go ahead doing things the way we see fit, without
getting a phD in economics. I'd say a workable solution will be
achieved through a lot of compromise.

>> Commercialization of R&D actually saves people money as it
>> makes research more efficient, because business is by nature
>> geared towards higher efficiency. Also, We can organize the
>
>In many cases I tend to agree - when the "D" of R&D is involved, namely
>once you enter the development stage. Curiously though, in the medical
>field (which mind uploading is in) that doesn't seem to be true either.
>One has only to observe the price gouging practices of health insurance
>and other health related companies in the U.S. compared to the more
>heavily regulated health industries in for example Europe and Canada. It's
>a complicated issue and I won't pretend to fully understand it. Let's just
>say that efficiency is not a foregone conclusion.

I'm not very familiar with the medical field either, but I
think privatization of everything medical is very common now,
and Canada is also increasingly privatized in healthcare. A
more important point is that uploading / brain emulation is
sufficiently different from other medical R&D that requires
clinical trials. (BCI requires clinical trials but maybe it
is also regulated differently than other medical devices).
I think the brain emulation project would be much more akin
to the genome project by nature.

I'm glad to get some feedback and get the discussion going
but I also found another more important question: The
development of AI may be slightly more rapid than uploading
and it may render uploading R&D a rather trivial problem.
Maybe it is really wiser to develop AI first and then
exploit the massive automation.

More on this later,
YKY



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