When I read the bit on the steam engine, I remember thinking it wasn’t a great argument as it was hard to know how a patent-less world would have developed. I’m not surprised to see there’s a link which talks about how…
Of course! Happy you found it useful. You’ll have to forgive me if my answer isn’t super satisfying - it’s possible, but I’d want to see patents under these conditions empirically validated. Some things you might find…
The book goes into quite a bit of depth if it is a topic that interests you. I would flag that we’re getting into “prove a negative” territory here: the goalpost is that we need to prove empirically that patents achieve…
There are two things to tackle here which I’m keen not to mix up as I think their epistemological properties are quite different: 1) [the stronger one] while the scenario/narrative is a compelling one (or maybe it just…
The book “against intellectual monopoly” has shaped a lot of my thinking on this topic - economists have looked at the various occasions in which patents were introduced into an industry (or extended in scope), and…
Do I understand correctly that this would enable me to do retroactive logging/perf-instrumentation?
Very interesting how on "downsampled 32x + interpolated" it sounds like the singer is harmonizing with herself
While I understand the narrative you're proposing, what I brought with my source was a collection of evidence where pharmacological innovation happened at an unaltered rate pre and post patents in e.g. Italy and…
Then why is it that when pharma patents were introduced in countries that didn't have them, the rate of innovation, TFP, R&D-as-%-GDP didn't increase? I brought a source to this debate, if you have sources showing that…
Very happy to see someone else thought of this too. I see the endgame as one in which services just expose documentation to their APIs and the AI figures out, based on your request, what to call and how to present the…
A good book on this topic was Acemoglu’s “Power and Progress”. Lots of illuminating examples of how technological progress immediately made life worse for many people, until a revolt/change came about to prevent…
Taleb in “Antifragile” talks about this as well. However he derives a different conclusion; he speaks of a phenomenon called “hormesis” which refers to a biological response where a low dose of a harmful stressor can…
Currently living in the Algarve after moving to Lisbon with my partner for her studies years ago. I know a few non-crypto entrepreneurs who came here for the NHR (non habitual resident scheme - the scheme mentioned in…
I’ve been curious about the dynamics around the often-cited statement “rent control doesn’t work”. It seems that with rent control, you’d have higher demand and lower supply resulting in excess demand (both…
When I read the bit on the steam engine, I remember thinking it wasn’t a great argument as it was hard to know how a patent-less world would have developed. I’m not surprised to see there’s a link which talks about how…
Of course! Happy you found it useful. You’ll have to forgive me if my answer isn’t super satisfying - it’s possible, but I’d want to see patents under these conditions empirically validated. Some things you might find…
The book goes into quite a bit of depth if it is a topic that interests you. I would flag that we’re getting into “prove a negative” territory here: the goalpost is that we need to prove empirically that patents achieve…
There are two things to tackle here which I’m keen not to mix up as I think their epistemological properties are quite different: 1) [the stronger one] while the scenario/narrative is a compelling one (or maybe it just…
The book “against intellectual monopoly” has shaped a lot of my thinking on this topic - economists have looked at the various occasions in which patents were introduced into an industry (or extended in scope), and…
Do I understand correctly that this would enable me to do retroactive logging/perf-instrumentation?
Very interesting how on "downsampled 32x + interpolated" it sounds like the singer is harmonizing with herself
While I understand the narrative you're proposing, what I brought with my source was a collection of evidence where pharmacological innovation happened at an unaltered rate pre and post patents in e.g. Italy and…
Then why is it that when pharma patents were introduced in countries that didn't have them, the rate of innovation, TFP, R&D-as-%-GDP didn't increase? I brought a source to this debate, if you have sources showing that…
Very happy to see someone else thought of this too. I see the endgame as one in which services just expose documentation to their APIs and the AI figures out, based on your request, what to call and how to present the…
A good book on this topic was Acemoglu’s “Power and Progress”. Lots of illuminating examples of how technological progress immediately made life worse for many people, until a revolt/change came about to prevent…
Taleb in “Antifragile” talks about this as well. However he derives a different conclusion; he speaks of a phenomenon called “hormesis” which refers to a biological response where a low dose of a harmful stressor can…
Currently living in the Algarve after moving to Lisbon with my partner for her studies years ago. I know a few non-crypto entrepreneurs who came here for the NHR (non habitual resident scheme - the scheme mentioned in…
I’ve been curious about the dynamics around the often-cited statement “rent control doesn’t work”. It seems that with rent control, you’d have higher demand and lower supply resulting in excess demand (both…