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Contents:

  1. Doing business with GIRG
  2. Why commercial?
  3. Why not opensource?
  4. Protecting intellectual property

Please refer to this page on the collaborative web platform. This is the software license for content developed on the platform.

Doing business with GIRG

... is very easy.

From my experience the 2 biggest obstacles to collaboration are:

  1. disagreement on AI theories. Therefore we provide a collaborative web platform to allow members to explore different ideas concurrently.
  2. disagreement on ideology, in other words, whether the AI should be free/commercial, open/closed, and how to deal with various social/political/economical issues.

Remember that in the business world, people who can form meaningful partnerships win.

Our business will be developed mainly within the collaborative web platform. But we can also contract outside to have a module developed, paying with cash / equity. Other forms of joint ventures are also possible.

Why commercial?

Capitalism will not disappear from the world any time soon; competition in the free market is still the best way to organize technology advancement and innovation. The logic of capitalism is also an embodiment of meritocracy. This logic may even persist after the advent of AI and complete automation. While some people argue that government is necessary to regulate the economy and to help the poor, etc, the bottomline is that free market and competition will not be abolished. And therefore we should be doing business and not giving out our work for free.

In this information age, information can be transferred at negligible costs but the creation of quality information is still costly. This is another reason why we should pay our members for creating informational products.

More speculations on the post-AI economy.

Why not opensource?

I opted against opensource because the opensource model does not generate income in a way that is commensurate with contributors' input efforts.

The collaborative platform is open only to members, and membership is granted to new members by voting. This is the best policy I can think of so far, and it can eliminate one source of discrimination in closed-source commercial projects.

Protecting intellectual property

Once we decide to go commercial, the need to protect IP follows logically.

The collaborative platform requires members to accept nondisclosure and noncompetition agreements.

Such a protection is not air-tight, but can be effective as the platform requires real identification of membership.

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