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There's a cognitive dissonance on this site where everyone claims to hate this attempt at regulatory capture, yet they would do it too if it was their tech comp

There's a cognitive dissonance on this site where everyone claims to hate this attempt at regulatory capture, yet they would do it too if it was their tech company and call it a "moat", and many are actively working towards that.

esseph 3mo ago
Two different groups: the hackers, and the money people.
- j2kun 3mo ago
  I heard someone say recently that one reason tech sucks is because the sociopathic narcissists domesticated the hackers.
  - esseph 3mo ago
    There's probably some truth to that.
  - rainbow13 3mo ago
    Just look at this site now lol
    - oceansky 3mo ago
      This site was created by venture capitalists. The dichotomy was always there.
  - nitwit005 3mo ago
    The sociopaths tend to rise to the top in any industry, unfortunately.
stevemk14ebr 3mo ago
I wouldn't do it, your point is now disproven
trollbridge 3mo ago
I haven't done this with any of our technology. Of course, I'm also not as profitable as some companies and have much less control over trying to lock my customers in. This does mean my YC application is far less likely to be accepted.
jdrmag 3mo ago
There's no cognitive dissonance. If it's not legislated against you're just being naive and kneecapping yourself by not abusing the rules. End of story.
sobani 3mo ago
You might be a victim of the Goomba Fallacy[0] where you're seeing two opposing opinions from two distinct groups of people, but since those are expressed on the same site, it seems as if 'the site' is contradicting itself. [0] https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-goomba-fallacy-heres-how-goombas-from-super-mario-became-the-face-of-the-internets-new-favorite-logical-fallacy https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-goomb...
- bluesign 3mo ago
  Doesn't Goomba fallacy require at least one opinion should be minority?
  - RugnirViking 3mo ago
    obviously not. Its about the fact that the two people expressing those two opinions are literally different people... They don't have "cognitive dissonance", they are two people! They disagree! thats normal!
izacus 3mo ago
Just because someone wrote a post on a site with orange banner it doesn't mean they agree with other people that wrote posts on the site with the orange banner. Let's learn the concept of "different people have different opinions", shall we?
netcan 3mo ago
Is this cognitive dissonance, or is this just people being normal? You pursue business strategies as a profit maximizing business person concerned with outcomes for your company and investors. You comment on the regulatory/political matters as a pro-social citizen concerned with societal benefits. Cognitive dissonance tends to occur when attempting to avoid hypocrisy... and doing mental gymnastics to make it so there are no clashes between your different perspectives.

esseph 3mo ago

Two different groups: the hackers, and the money people.

j2kun 3mo ago
I heard someone say recently that one reason tech sucks is because the sociopathic narcissists domesticated the hackers.
- esseph 3mo ago
  There's probably some truth to that.
- rainbow13 3mo ago
  Just look at this site now lol
  - oceansky 3mo ago
    This site was created by venture capitalists. The dichotomy was always there.
- nitwit005 3mo ago
  The sociopaths tend to rise to the top in any industry, unfortunately.

stevemk14ebr 3mo ago

I wouldn't do it, your point is now disproven

trollbridge 3mo ago

I haven't done this with any of our technology. Of course, I'm also not as profitable as some companies and have much less control over trying to lock my customers in. This does mean my YC application is far less likely to be accepted.

jdrmag 3mo ago

There's no cognitive dissonance. If it's not legislated against you're just being naive and kneecapping yourself by not abusing the rules. End of story.

sobani 3mo ago

You might be a victim of the Goomba Fallacy[0] where you're seeing two opposing opinions from two distinct groups of people, but since those are expressed on the same site, it seems as if 'the site' is contradicting itself. [0] https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-goomba-fallacy-heres-how-goombas-from-super-mario-became-the-face-of-the-internets-new-favorite-logical-fallacy https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-goomb...

bluesign 3mo ago
Doesn't Goomba fallacy require at least one opinion should be minority?
- RugnirViking 3mo ago
  obviously not. Its about the fact that the two people expressing those two opinions are literally different people... They don't have "cognitive dissonance", they are two people! They disagree! thats normal!

izacus 3mo ago

Just because someone wrote a post on a site with orange banner it doesn't mean they agree with other people that wrote posts on the site with the orange banner. Let's learn the concept of "different people have different opinions", shall we?

netcan 3mo ago

Is this cognitive dissonance, or is this just people being normal? You pursue business strategies as a profit maximizing business person concerned with outcomes for your company and investors. You comment on the regulatory/political matters as a pro-social citizen concerned with societal benefits. Cognitive dissonance tends to occur when attempting to avoid hypocrisy... and doing mental gymnastics to make it so there are no clashes between your different perspectives.