I'm not saying I believe that or that Amodei thinks this decision is reasonable.

I wonder if OS maintainers would have a leg up in defining workflows to better leverage this. Of course, OS contributors are autonomous developers, but maybe a trick or two might transfer across

Even though it's nominally the national library behind this, they were probably chosen (as per the article) because they legally own and can use all NO material for this end. I'd guess researchers from related entities like unis will be involved in the process.

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Just this week I read a "study" because someone claimed on social media that it was made by (Public, famous) Unis A, B and C and reported as an effect an increase in 30% of revenue for the companies that participated in the experiment.

The "study" was commissioned by an interest group (bad sign). It was conducted by people associated with said unis (I didn't check their credentials), and it did report in its headline the 30% revenue increase.

Said study was about an experiment that ran for a few months. Within these months, the revenue was flat (which could be considered good enough for the cause). The 30% was the revenue of this period against the same period the previous year. So somehow the experiment affected the companies retroactively! Not to mention that the researchers were able to find a group of companies that were, on average, growing 30% YoY. Surprising indeed.

So even if you check your sources, it may still be bullshit science or bullshit reporting from well-credentialed sources.

Germany has (used to have? I don't follow this closely) the "church tax": citizens are obligated to pay the tax no matter how much faith they have, but are free to channel it to a denomination/organization they believe in.

Maybe a liberal, democratic state could successfully build something similar for news organizations: all citizens have to pay a "journalism tax", which they then channel to a subscription for a vehicle they trust.

Yes, a million ways this can be abused, the government may censor opposition, etc. I know, I said the idea wasn't great. But worth pondering. Also, this is based on a very stylized understanding of how said German tax works (I'm not German and never looked at it that deeply)

btw I understand this is the opposite of "free", but more about journalism financing in general.

Democracy is… an organized group toppling decisions made by popularly elected representatives within the confines of the law?

But yeah, having to pay your debts do suck

> ~18% of their working age people *do not have jobs*

Which is a correct interpretation of participation rate. His theory on the causes may be off, but his numbers weren't

Countries have centuries of experience providing attestation services through notaries. Germany is even infamous for requiring them for things that would sound ridiculous even in Brazil (both movie and country)

I can’t see why governments couldn’t incorporate this existing infrastructure into the digital world. Make them sell hardware ID wallets, enforce the real identity owner to be present to invalidate a previous ID or whatever, and add legal restrictions for the government not be able to alter these registries

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I do agree the market is eager to conflate run rate and arr, though

Btw: isn’t lotr out of copyright in death of author + 50yrs countries? Where’s the legal Chinese movie trilogy?