No problems in this world remaining are answered now by heaving around objects, none whatsoever, without an idea to precede that, to say how it answers that particular (previously unsolved) problem. Paywalls are gross and on fire and serve only to perpetuate whatever could have been solved faster with more minds on it. Whilst cancer is an issue, paywalls cause cancer, contributing to the system causes (a much tinier amount) of cancer - no hyperbole. Bulldozing all paywalls would save x amount of lives per still-at-large disease, and dropping them makes us *ping* into better standards of common and collected knowledge with a lump-sum payout to all the universities and many others.
Past that, where you can replace "cancer" with any given pressing issue (fuel finity, goshawful economic distribution, isolation of marginalised groups, mass media... not even a finite list!!) summing all those together to see what making knowledge free gives us in terms of real poly/omnifaceted utility in one swoop... PAST THAT: learning has never been solely about solving problems, but raising literacy in general so that we can build more meaningful connections whilst surviving, racing hovercars, and finding cooler questions, finding whole new aspects of reality to explore by connecting previously unconnected insights.
*This* endeavour: constant, collective, and irreplacable is *especially* benefited by (Universally) Free Knowledge, much more so than niche predefined tasks which are more viable for specialists to invest in. Polymaths are generally useful, and, basically people are better the more diversely they have glanced... this is particularly the style of learning paywalls harm, and we shouldn't be barring anyone at wiki-grade knowledge just because they're poor. Exchange rates play here too.
Free Knowledge would open everything to everyone, beginning with raising the mean, median, and nearly all percentiles of human intelligence, capability, wisdom, and literacy with which to send it on. (Percentiles not directly lifted in these measures would be benefited in many other ways along with everyone else.)
The *one* thing holding us back from all that benefit, which would hit straight away a bit and soar... all those cancery-solve-me problems and the "woah" unknowns from sticking formerly separate ideas together, *plus* the huge number of people newly invited and encouraged, empowered, to read what's better than what they viably may at present... No, it's not researchers and labs who are getting moneymoneymoney from $40 journal articles, it's... the company who post it to the internet?
Surely that's the music industry isn't it? The same triceratopses. Zero researchers rely on royalties from pay-per-view payperviews - and good!! That would be absurd and lend to a terrible academic demagoguery if people act rationally. Researchers are invested in kudos from "respected journals" (whilst paywalls aren't respectful to the public, to knowledge itself, cancer-survivors, nor the researchers who sought to provide max benefit not just for a few), so...
I don't think it's a case we ask Nature to change (heh), but knowledge workers politely letting journals rot unless they add value instead of creating scarcity (of access and journal-space). We don't quite have it yet, the alternative, but how could we all want researchers to keep paying tax siphoned off to a letterpress, besides the increase in public literacy by inviting everyone to everything. How about not asking for a specially secured circle for the men with hats and honorifics, but public peer-reviews with ratings based on proven reputation? A reddit-like built purely for academia would be a swell start, hey? Keep it sensible and proper, let the great stuff shine with proportion as opposed to "Yes, you're in Nature now, and no, you're not." And let the good times roll. Super-peer review, super-inviting to readers and researchers, meta-communities right there and discussion made straight away oh my, a big pile of statsy data somewhere and streams of the hottest graphs and images, oh oh my "Open Source Press"
my corpus is ready!!
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No problems in this world remaining are answered now by heaving around objects, none whatsoever, without an idea to precede that, to say how it answers that particular (previously unsolved) problem. Paywalls are gross and on fire and serve only to perpetuate whatever could have been solved faster with more minds on it. Whilst cancer is an issue, paywalls cause cancer, contributing to the system causes (a much tinier amount) of cancer - no hyperbole. Bulldozing all paywalls would save x amount of lives per still-at-large disease, and dropping them makes us *ping* into better standards of common and collected knowledge with a lump-sum payout to all the universities and many others. Past that, where you can replace "cancer" with any given pressing issue (fuel finity, goshawful economic distribution, isolation of marginalised groups, mass media... not even a finite list!!) summing all those together to see what making knowledge free gives us in terms of real poly/omnifaceted utility in one swoop... PAST THAT: learning has never been solely about solving problems, but raising literacy in general so that we can build more meaningful connections whilst surviving, racing hovercars, and finding cooler questions, finding whole new aspects of reality to explore by connecting previously unconnected insights. *This* endeavour: constant, collective, and irreplacable is *especially* benefited by (Universally) Free Knowledge, much more so than niche predefined tasks which are more viable for specialists to invest in. Polymaths are generally useful, and, basically people are better the more diversely they have glanced... this is particularly the style of learning paywalls harm, and we shouldn't be barring anyone at wiki-grade knowledge just because they're poor. Exchange rates play here too. Free Knowledge would open everything to everyone, beginning with raising the mean, median, and nearly all percentiles of human intelligence, capability, wisdom, and literacy with which to send it on. (Percentiles not directly lifted in these measures would be benefited in many other ways along with everyone else.) The *one* thing holding us back from all that benefit, which would hit straight away a bit and soar... all those cancery-solve-me problems and the "woah" unknowns from sticking formerly separate ideas together, *plus* the huge number of people newly invited and encouraged, empowered, to read what's better than what they viably may at present... No, it's not researchers and labs who are getting moneymoneymoney from $40 journal articles, it's... the company who post it to the internet? Surely that's the music industry isn't it? The same triceratopses. Zero researchers rely on royalties from pay-per-view payperviews - and good!! That would be absurd and lend to a terrible academic demagoguery if people act rationally. Researchers are invested in kudos from "respected journals" (whilst paywalls aren't respectful to the public, to knowledge itself, cancer-survivors, nor the researchers who sought to provide max benefit not just for a few), so... I don't think it's a case we ask Nature to change (heh), but knowledge workers politely letting journals rot unless they add value instead of creating scarcity (of access and journal-space). We don't quite have it yet, the alternative, but how could we all want researchers to keep paying tax siphoned off to a letterpress, besides the increase in public literacy by inviting everyone to everything. How about not asking for a specially secured circle for the men with hats and honorifics, but public peer-reviews with ratings based on proven reputation? A reddit-like built purely for academia would be a swell start, hey? Keep it sensible and proper, let the great stuff shine with proportion as opposed to "Yes, you're in Nature now, and no, you're not." And let the good times roll. Super-peer review, super-inviting to readers and researchers, meta-communities right there and discussion made straight away oh my, a big pile of statsy data somewhere and streams of the hottest graphs and images, oh oh my "Open Source Press" my corpus is ready!! wiki.khalidaaishah.ink