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0 pointsmensetmanusman2y ago0 comments

It is illegal in places that have rule of law.

This is to create a risk reduction mechanism for investing in capital to make this at scale, which will cost on the order of $100-500M to scale for world use through trial and error.

If IP is ignored, no business will invest in the initial experiments due to first mover disadvantage in game theory.

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Iulioh2y ago

>If IP is ignored, no business will invest in the initial experiments due to first mover disadvantage in game theory.

Not if you belive that

mensetmanusmanOP2y ago

This has been shown to be historically true, because startup costs can be tens to hundreds of million in R&D.

The business that spends will have their workers immediately poached if they don’t have IP protecting their initial startup costs.

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