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@TenaciousGoat Indeed, but it was pretty cold, around 0°C.

You don't "trust" the science, you constantly test it and try to reproduce it.

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@Eiregoat @Dulla Well every government action or regulatory scheme trends towards regulatory capture, that's the nature of government. It doesn't mean you never engage government force, that means you're supposed to be cautious of it. There's no good/bad binary state for "good governance", it's a constantly shifting equilibrium that requires constant vigilance.

I do disagree that all those other industries started out with "just a little bit of regulation". Those industries were often explicitly targeted for LOTS of regulation. Many of them got their start in largely unregulated fields, like energy, that got intentionally regulated as soon as people realized how important it was. But others, like banking, were recognized as industries that needed curbing right from the start. And that's not just in the USA either (where we had angst about the National Bank until Andrew Jackson killed it). You can go back to the very first goldsmiths-turned-bankers, and find the European royalty keeping a tight leash on them.

I think tech is analogous to energy; a bunch of people doing stuff in a field the public doesn't understand, until massive amounts of money and productivity start flowing from it. Then there's a period where nobody wants to touch it, for fear of cutting off the wealth. And then there's a period where some public harms become apparent, and they start slapping regulations on it. For tech, I think those phases are roughly analogous to 1960s-1980s, then 1990s-mid 2010s, and now we're in the harms+regulations phase.

Obviously I disagree with a lot of what the left labels "harm" in tech, just as they'd disagree with me saying deplatforming is harm. But in a macro sense we're in that societal phase now.

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