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At this stage in development of a new “space” or perhaps I should say “plane of existence” in the case of meta, you need to get as far away from regulation as p

At this stage in development of a new “space” or perhaps I should say “plane of existence” in the case of meta, you need to get as far away from regulation as possible. There will be many casualties, as there always are in pioneering endeavours, but these are just a necessary part of advancement.

germinalphrase 5y ago
Which is - of course - easy to say when it is not the sailors themselves who are subject to the suffering.
gostsamo 5y ago
Are you ready to be the casualty?
- nickdothutton 5y ago
  At times in my career I have been a “pioneer”, at times a “settler”, and at other times a “town planner”. While university friends took up offers from Oracle, Microsoft, Sun, I started work at one of the first ISPs. Terrible pay, zero benefits. Funding the company partly on our own meagre personal credit limits, but the thrill of building something from scratch that we were sure would change the world and that should be built. If not us then who? We thought. It worked out well for us, but most others didn’t make it.
  - gostsamo 5y ago
    This is the version where you take the risk, pay the price, and/or reap the rewards. When we talk about casualties, there is another story for people who didn't take the risk, did not reap any rewards, but paid the price anyway. When we talk about externalizing the costs, those are the people meant to pay them. So, excuse me, but when someone talks about inevitable casualties while enthusiastically pushing against regulations, it means that they do not intend to be the casualty and are looking for ways to push someone else under the bus. Progress is something wonderful, but it should prove itself before us, not we in front of it.
JumpCrisscross 5y ago
> a necessary part of advancement Plenty of heretics have been burned through history in the name of advancement to a superior moral plane. Of course, that was horse shit. The criticism levied against crypto and the meta verse is in a similar vein. To what are we advancing? How do we measure progress? And who wants to go there?

germinalphrase 5y ago

Which is - of course - easy to say when it is not the sailors themselves who are subject to the suffering.

gostsamo 5y ago

Are you ready to be the casualty?

nickdothutton 5y ago
At times in my career I have been a “pioneer”, at times a “settler”, and at other times a “town planner”. While university friends took up offers from Oracle, Microsoft, Sun, I started work at one of the first ISPs. Terrible pay, zero benefits. Funding the company partly on our own meagre personal credit limits, but the thrill of building something from scratch that we were sure would change the world and that should be built. If not us then who? We thought. It worked out well for us, but most others didn’t make it.
- gostsamo 5y ago
  This is the version where you take the risk, pay the price, and/or reap the rewards. When we talk about casualties, there is another story for people who didn't take the risk, did not reap any rewards, but paid the price anyway. When we talk about externalizing the costs, those are the people meant to pay them. So, excuse me, but when someone talks about inevitable casualties while enthusiastically pushing against regulations, it means that they do not intend to be the casualty and are looking for ways to push someone else under the bus. Progress is something wonderful, but it should prove itself before us, not we in front of it.

JumpCrisscross 5y ago

> a necessary part of advancement Plenty of heretics have been burned through history in the name of advancement to a superior moral plane. Of course, that was horse shit. The criticism levied against crypto and the meta verse is in a similar vein. To what are we advancing? How do we measure progress? And who wants to go there?