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Meanwhile Singapore’s prime minister knows programming and writes Python in his spare time.

by dannyw 2y ago

Barrin92 2y ago
Does that mean anything though? I don't want Slash to draft anti-trust legislation in the record label industry because he can play the guitar. Crafting correct market regulations is largely going to depend on whether people understand the economic dynamics and are free from corporate influence, not whether they do some coding.
- senorrib 2y ago
  It may not mean guaranteed signal that they can create good regulation, but the opposite is a pretty major red flag. If you don't understand technology, I have a very hard time trusting you to enact laws on the subject.
- shiroiushi 2y ago
  Being a guitar player by itself does not qualify you to draft anti-trust legislation for the music industry. However, someone who's deaf and doesn't know anything at all about music or the music industry would probably also be a poor choice. At least Slash has decades of experience working with major players in the industry and could probably advise on it to some lawyers who know about anti-trust regulation and at least understand the basics about the industry.
  - jvanderbot 2y ago
    I still disagree. It's somehow weird to have a deaf person writing music industry regulations - but it's actually not at all important for them to hear music to regulate it. Otherwise, do we regulate differently based on _sound_!? I hope not! We don't regulate based on music theory either! Do we need him to know chord progressions to be able to write laws? I hope not! With tech it's a little different, we do regulate based on aspects that touch on fundamental theory, like manufacturing processes, cryptography, etc.
    - shiroiushi 2y ago
      >We don't regulate based on music theory either! Do we need him to know chord progressions to be able to write laws? I hope not! Yes, we absolutely do, and we already do this. That's why deaf people can't write these laws: they don't even know what music or chords are: they have no way of sensing them. There absolutely have been court cases about plagiarism where the arguments were about whether certain chord progressions can be copyrighted or not.
throwaway2037 2y ago
And has his gov't done anything to protect it's citizens from monopolistic foreign tech firms? No. So really, this comment means little in regards to the wider discussion.
zarzavat 2y ago
That’s underselling Lee’s talents, like saying Carmack learned shell scripting in his spare time. Lee was Senior Wrangler at Cambridge, i.e. he came top of the class in one of the most competitive mathematics programs in the world. He’s in the company of people like Ben Green and Kevin Buzzard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Wrangler#Senior_Wranglers_since_1910 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Wrangler#Senior_Wrangle...

Meanwhile Singapore’s prime minister knows programming and writes Python in his spare time.

by dannyw 2y ago

Meanwhile Singapore’s prime minister knows programming and writes Python in his spare time.

Does that mean anything though? I don't want Slash to draft anti-trust legislation in the record label industry because he can play the guitar. Crafting correct market regulations is largely going to depend on whether people understand the economic dynamics and are free from corporate influence, not whether they do some coding.

senorrib 2y ago
It may not mean guaranteed signal that they can create good regulation, but the opposite is a pretty major red flag. If you don't understand technology, I have a very hard time trusting you to enact laws on the subject.
shiroiushi 2y ago
Being a guitar player by itself does not qualify you to draft anti-trust legislation for the music industry. However, someone who's deaf and doesn't know anything at all about music or the music industry would probably also be a poor choice. At least Slash has decades of experience working with major players in the industry and could probably advise on it to some lawyers who know about anti-trust regulation and at least understand the basics about the industry.
- jvanderbot 2y ago
  I still disagree. It's somehow weird to have a deaf person writing music industry regulations - but it's actually not at all important for them to hear music to regulate it. Otherwise, do we regulate differently based on _sound_!? I hope not! We don't regulate based on music theory either! Do we need him to know chord progressions to be able to write laws? I hope not! With tech it's a little different, we do regulate based on aspects that touch on fundamental theory, like manufacturing processes, cryptography, etc.
  - shiroiushi 2y ago
    >We don't regulate based on music theory either! Do we need him to know chord progressions to be able to write laws? I hope not! Yes, we absolutely do, and we already do this. That's why deaf people can't write these laws: they don't even know what music or chords are: they have no way of sensing them. There absolutely have been court cases about plagiarism where the arguments were about whether certain chord progressions can be copyrighted or not.

throwaway2037 2y ago

And has his gov't done anything to protect it's citizens from monopolistic foreign tech firms? No. So really, this comment means little in regards to the wider discussion.

zarzavat 2y ago

That’s underselling Lee’s talents, like saying Carmack learned shell scripting in his spare time. Lee was Senior Wrangler at Cambridge, i.e. he came top of the class in one of the most competitive mathematics programs in the world. He’s in the company of people like Ben Green and Kevin Buzzard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Wrangler#Senior_Wranglers_since_1910 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Wrangler#Senior_Wrangle...