Clearly we are on the same wavelength, Stranger. I wonder how many in the “Singularity” community understand the super-intelligent nature of the market system? (There may be some at this site who do). Study of the market system may seem a little less dry and unimportant to this community if put in these sort of terms, but I think most are intent on chasing a will-o-the-wisp.
So? Whether it’s closed source or F/OSS, someone has to come up with an idea worthy of implementation, or there has to be a group brainstorm which achieves the same result, before implementation can begin on anything.
Specious claim. There’s competition among F/OSS desktop environments, among F/OSS kernels, among F/OSS windowing systems, among F/OSS programming languages, and among various other F/OSS projects, yet there’s no shortage of developers. You’re assuming that there’d be some sort of concensus and collaboration between closed source AGI development projects.
Why don’t we get government to do all our scientific research then? I mean, if all you have to do is throw money at a problem, without regard to the technical merits of the approach (which is what typically attracts F/OSS developers), then surely government should be the most efficient means of doing research.
If you consider getting further than anyone else has managed to be a failure, then yes they’ve failed.