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		dogma1138 on July 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 really achieved (2020) This can be applied to anything, Google couldn’t have been founded without decades of public research into computer science that was itself built on thousands of years of human knowledge. Everything we do is built on top of what came before.

andrepd on July 12, 2021 [–]

This is indeed the argument of e.g. Anarchists such as Kropotkin, or of Georgism.

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