59 points | by subset 4 hours ago ago
5 comments
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47450478
“ArXiv declares independence from Cornell” (science.org)
811 points | 3 months ago | 291 comments
Should charge AI for training on top of it or get them to donate. A small amount can fund them easily.
That would be a trap. It's healthier for a non-profit to have many small funders than a few large ones.
I'm always grateful to arXiv. It allows non-scientists like me to access high-quality papers anytime. Thank you, always
That worries me a bit. ArXiv was and is great and so useful to humanity, giving access to otherwise closed knowledge, hold by publishers cartel, that I would not like to see it is turning into a "non-profit" of OpenAI kind...
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47450478
“ArXiv declares independence from Cornell” (science.org)
811 points | 3 months ago | 291 comments
Should charge AI for training on top of it or get them to donate. A small amount can fund them easily.
That would be a trap. It's healthier for a non-profit to have many small funders than a few large ones.
I'm always grateful to arXiv. It allows non-scientists like me to access high-quality papers anytime. Thank you, always
That worries me a bit. ArXiv was and is great and so useful to humanity, giving access to otherwise closed knowledge, hold by publishers cartel, that I would not like to see it is turning into a "non-profit" of OpenAI kind...