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If someone paid me to study cancer and I discovered a cure, I'd give it away with or without credit. Who cares?

If someone takes my software and uses it, cool. If they credit me, cool. If they don't, oh well. I'd still code.

Not everything needs to be ego driven. As long as the cancer researcher (and the future robots working alongside them) can make a living, I really don't think it matters whether they get credit outside their niches.

I have no idea who invented the CT scanner, Xray machines, the hyperdermic needle, etc. I don't really care. It doesn't really do me any good to associate Edison with light bulbs either, especially when LEDs are so much better now. I have no idea who designs the cars I drive. I go out of my way to avoid cults of personality like Tesla.

There's 8 billion of us. We all need to make a living. We don't need to be famous.

>>solard+(OP)
Your incentives are not everyone else's incentives.

If someone chooses to dedicate their life to a particular domain - they sacrifice through hard work, they make hard-earned breakthroughs, then they get to dictate how their work will be utilized.

Sure, you can give it away. Your choice. Be anonymous. Your choice.

But you don't get to decide for them.

And their work certainly doesn't deserve to be stolen by an inhumane, non-acknowledging machine.

>>solard+(OP)
You sounds like you’re trying to be cool or karma farming ?

I have no idea who invented the CT scanner, Xray machines, the hyperdermic needle, etc. I don't really care.

Maybe you should care because those things didn’t fall out do the sky and someone sure as shit got paid to develop and build those things. You copy and pasted code is worth less, a CT scanner isn’t.