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We have lots of capable open weights models, but very few have actual datasets and pipelines open for reproducibility. This is a major issue that even if big companies addressed, policies could well just change, as you also acknowledge.

Society can't depend on the whims of the private sector.

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> Society can't depend on the whims of the private sector.

Yeah we can, we do it all the time. Nothing in society works without relying on private actors to keep doing what they have always done. Unless you go full soviet command economy, which in fact works worse.

Society and the private sector cooperates, but any technical dependency is detrimental because of monopolization of interests. You don't need to go full soviet, but knowledge in general must be socialized, that includes access to technology.

We literally grant 20 year monopolies on technologies to their inventors and have for centuries and it's fine. The entire economy runs on chips made by like, 3 foundries using lithography machines made by 1 company. I think you are overstating the necessity.

This example proves the exact opposite, that is a national security disaster waiting to happen

Autarky would be a national security disaster manifested. You can't be a modern prosperous society and not rely on either trade nor private enterprise.

I totally agree, hence my previous comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945572

I think you confused "can't" with "shouldn't".

Yes, society in general shouldn't, what I meant to say is that democratic society can't, otherwise it'll devolve invariably into an oligarchy.

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