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> these companies don't need to wait for regulation to not destroy the world, if that's truly what they think will happen.

They believe that if they don't destroy the world someone else will so better be them

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Exactly this. “I want to win the market. I would prefer that it be a regulated market, but if not, so be it. I’m still playing to win.”

You might want to google what inb4 means, at least you could've put a bit more effort substantiating it.

If your response to an argument is inb4, you don't get to tell somebody else they're not putting in enough effort to provide substance. Also, I brought up race dynamics before your inb4, so even if anticipation counted as more than a shallow dismissal, you didn't meet that bar.

I really don't understand what's happening here lately such that 15-year-old accounts are behaving so poorly. This is the first time you've said 'inb4' in what I can only guess is thousands of comments over a decade and a half. If you don't care about the standards here anymore, why stick around and make things worse for the rest of us? Is there some other draw than quality of conversation?

I wrote something earlier to the same effect and wound up deleting it because it let too much frustration through. I am frustrated, but you don't deserve the brunt of that. Sorry if that's still coming through.

Someone else will do it is the lowest form of justification for any bad behavior. Regarding the rest of your judgement of the quality of the comments that's why we have votes. Some of my comments for this 15 years are downvoted and others upvoted and some are even flagged and it lets me learn what the crowd agrees with and not and I reflect from it and you can see the average to judge for yourself what the crowd thinks of my contributions. I appreciate your answer but it's one person's opinion, as is mine.

This has nothing to do with agreement with the crowd, and it's not a matter of difference of opinion between us. There are guidelines here[1] that are not being met. A conscious effort was made to prevent this site from being an echo chamber and to prevent it from descending into entropy and the approach you describe here directly contradicts this. The crowd is very often wrong. If you are getting downvoted for incorrectness or disagreement, the crowd is definitely wrong. Please don't change your mind over downvotes! That's what the conversation is for.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Mate with all due respect, get bent.

Now you really have an example of breaking the rules.

I appreciate the admission. Please try to participate productively in the future.

"We're the good guys because we'll destroy the world a little less."

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