An unfortunate byproduct of the paywalling of most scientific and scholarly papers is that LLMs cannot train on them. The abusive and oligopolistic economic model of science journal publishers is literally holding back humanity from having superior AI

Aviator, diver, Etherean, nexialist, PhD in aviation ∩ climate science | Host of /diving /ethfinance /eth-staker /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas

this is why i didn’t publish my malaria thesis, even though 5 professors told me i should do it. nnit’s been 6 years and still nobody did what i did, even though it’s “just epidemiology”. I still think about it. nnBut i wouldn’t pay 200-300 usd in a country where each usd is worth 5 local currency, unaware if it was going to be published. nndownloading; even with paywall, is easy though.