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Weird to watch an entirely different subset of tech watchers get all activated and excited by the hearings, and the regular subset mostly check out. I have like less than zero interest in trying to parse politicians trying to understand tech.
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My position is it's a futile conversation. They have power but no ability or interest in understanding what they're trying to exercise it over. So eventually they'll just do some shitty thing and we'll deal. Mostly by developing more new tech via some loophole.
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Ignorance alloyed with deep disinterest, plus the extreme interests of trying to present good optics through an overton window to constituencies who understand even less and care even less... not a recipe for even good theater, let alone value.
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Like, the literal purpose of this, the thing it is solving for, is unflattering photos of tech CEOs with awkward expressions or postures, and random weaponizable soundbites of politicians doing some charismatic "eviscerating" of people who are forced to listen politely
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It’s futile because they are not even talking to each other. CEOs are talking to shareholders and customers, and the congresspeople are talking to their special interest stakeholders and (to a lesser extent) their constituents.
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I think this is the standard take of anyone who works in a regulated industry. It is the same in finance. The only people who know what they are talking about are already captured by the industry.
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