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Re:What DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 really achieved (2020) by dogma1138 on Monday July 12, 2021 @08:57AM (#27809751)
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.

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Re:What DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 really achieved (2020) by andrepd on Monday July 12, 2021 @12:54PM (#27812330)
This is indeed the argument of e.g. Anarchists such as Kropotkin, or of Georgism.
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