Machine learning has a tradition of open access. These signatories have pledged not to submit or review for Nature/Springer's new (closed access) ML journal. Include Yoshua Bengio, @yclecun, Michael Jordan, and many others: https://openaccess.engineering.oregonstate.edu/ https://twitter.com/tdietterich/status/990325895729594368 …
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Also a bad argument. If what they're doing is negative for the field of machine learning - which, clearly, a lot of first-rate machine learning people think is true - then no, they don't particularly deserve a salary to live on.
(To be clear, I mean: if doing this thing is bad for the field - which apparently many top people believe is true - then they should go do something else. Obviously I don't mean that they shouldn't have salaries for anything!)
