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		saiya-jin on Nov 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for... Or any other say pharma company using massively and constantly basic research done by universities worldwide from our tax money. And then you go to pharmacy and buy medicine that costed 50 cents to manufacture and distribute for 50 bucks. I don't like the whole idea neither, but various communism-style alternatives just don't work very well.

tokai on Nov 21, 2023 [–]

Pharma companies spend billions on financing public research. Hell the Novo Nordisk Foundation is be biggest charitable foundation in the world.

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