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> Also, an AI company would only ever care to purchase, scan, destroy a book once. Presumably many books have more than one copy.

The OP article sounds quite opposite though - that AI companies are doing exactly this - destroying books so only they have the scanned content.

A good quote. I didn’t mean the question as “atheist vs believer argument”, but rather as an environment where ideas are accepted and flourish. Because I understood the parent comment: “He eventually got bored.” as "He got bored by the corporate environment not getting his ideas and thus went to a better organization in that regard."

So now, how was he, the one with brilliant and unorthodox ideas, got accepted in an institution like seminary? How he felt having arguments there, etc. …

>> He eventually got bored. He retired and joined a seminary.

Wow, got bored and joined a seminary - Do you know how does he feel there? A genuine question - Did he expect to get excited and challenged in a seminary?

If this is a fact:

> 1. Patented algorithms that are effectively impossible to license in a commercial setting.

then does anyone know how "OpenCV has been the foundation of countless production systems" is possible, as the OP article claims?

Cool! Do you have some good links about the story behind this development?