Github's major closed-source Copilot extension reenables itself if you try to tone down the aggressiveness of its suggestions. Some malware / reverse-useless-machine vibes.
A lot of us are sort of waiting for the other shoe to drop with respect to Microsoft's commitment to openness, so this seem kinda foreboding.
The article didn't focus too much on solutions, though a couple of things were mentioned:
1. Reducing patent protection
2. Price controls (?)
So let's assume we want these companies to reduce their profit margins (and instead lower drug prices or spend more on R&D.) What _are_ the best policy tools to incentivize this while minimizing market distortions, etc?
Wouldn't both reduced patent protections and price controls reduce incentive to invest in R&D and for private investors likewise reduce incentive to invest in pharma that invests in R&D?
I think maybe it's only strange if you assume the SEC has unlimited money and time. Grandparent comment says it better, but they're likely focusing on cases they think are pretty clear-cut.
I'm interested in cases like Rari where there was a decentralized governance mechanism but it was dominated by a "core team", that feels like it encompasses a larger slice of the space than I would have expected. Many of the others are deeply unsurprising though, they are US corporations, took VC investments, have active managerial teams which are all employees of that corp, and advertise themselves as working to increase token value.
This was/is exactly the business model of SolarCity and a lot of residential solar. The more general concept, sometimes called "Savings as a Service" or "Efficiency as a Service", is pretty ubiquitous in the energy space.
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