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Re:AirSim: open-source simulator for autonomous vehicles by uoaei on Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:15PM (#21021289)
"My own complaint" is one on which the success of autonomous vehicles hinges. It's not an arbitrary critique at all -- all these things will be misclassified and mistreated unless explicitly included in the training process (until ML gets smarter). The fat tail strikes again.

"Benefiting the world" sounds great except we're embedded in a capitalist system for which the net gain on utility from this action is negative -- the super-corporations capitalizing on my unpaid work will further contribute to the economic inequality that beleaguers everyone who works for a wage.

Re:AirSim: open-source simulator for autonomous vehicles by toxicFork on Friday September 20, 2019 @09:56AM (#21026686)
There are more and more methods of getting funding for contributing to open source, for example https://opencollective.com/
Re:AirSim: open-source simulator for autonomous vehicles by uoaei on Friday September 20, 2019 @01:57PM (#21029473)
All open source is not equal. Fetishizing "open source," without considering the use cases and who may profit from it, is not something I feel comfortable doing.

I'm not ragging on open source as a concept, just that this example particularly is a bad one for justifying its utility.