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Yes, that's why the best way to increase the numvber of remote companies is to build them from scratch, with a remote incubator. That's what I am doing: http://www.startcrowd.club

I made a job board for remote jobs in data science: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1054526381348851/

Maybe because RL research is not democratized enough to practionners. It is easier to study RL in a controlled environment like a video game (those 'elite researchers' are still not smart enough for real-world applications).

So you remark means that more education about RL is needed, and OpenAI, alongside other institutions like FastAI or Startcrowd, is helping for this effort.

If you published your research in peer-reviewed venues, it would help your democratization ambitions. Few people can pay attention to original research that is buried into teaching material.

Reinforcement Learning is fundamental research, it needs sponsors like Musk to survive. Agriculture and medicine are applied research, they can find their own independent business models for monetization. That's what we are doing at Startcrowd: http://www.startcrowd.club

The market needs signals, and the point of Goldberg was that those signals are missing with arxiv, and that just looking at the lab reputation was a poor signal. I am working on it, contact me for details.

>But the problem is real and something must be done

I am working on a social network for papers that addresses this problem. Arxiv is too vulnerable to fake news articles because it is an archaic social network. I also think https://openreview.net can be improved. You can check my project here : http://www.startcrowd.club it does not have an anti fake news feature yet, but it is on the product roadmap.

I will not pay in any case

good news, I did not like the whole Kaggle concept anyway: thousands of people over-engineering solutions for one problem, paid peanuts, while there are more rewarding problems than talent available. It was a huge waste of scarce brainpower. I am launching my Kaggle alternative, landing page here: http://startcrowd.club/ Thanks Google for eliminating my competitor.