Comment by ungreased0675

Comment by ungreased0675 20 hours ago

I’m sure most people who create regulations believe they’re making good ones.

What’s important is to assess whether the regulations had the intended result, and what the second and third order effects were. A lot of regulations, created in good faith, would fail this test.

NotPractical 18 hours ago

I agree. It would be one thing if they did an independent analysis on the outcomes of each regulation and arrived at an evidence-based conclusion (and even then it would still be very difficult or impossible to achieve objectivity).

But from what I can tell, it basically boils down to "let's just read the bullet points for each one and put it on the list if they sound good", which is misleading and even dangerous. Chat Control should be on the list by those standards.

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immibis 12 hours ago

> Chat Control should be on the list by those standards
But it isn't, so maybe those aren't the standards?

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Epa095 12 hours ago

There seems to be a implicit assumption here that the world witouth the regulation is the 'natural' one, which should not be disturbed without good reason?

Not entailing regulations also has second and third order effects, and usually nobody is considering them (unless it can increase revenue).

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