Funny, but this kinda implies that some person designed this way. It's a resultant sum of small vectors, with corporate lobbying playing a significant role. Corporate lobbying systemically can't do anything else than try to increase profits, which usually means less regulation. Clean slate design would require a system collapse.

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graemep 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Corporate lobbying systemically can't do anything else than try to increase profits, which usually means less regulation.

Corporate lobbying can be for more regulation. It can disadvantage competitors. Zuckerberg has spoken in favour of greater regulation of social media in the past. The UK's Online Safety Act creates barriers to entry and provides and excuse for more tracking. I can think of examples, some acknowledged by the CEOs of the companies involved, ranging from British pubs to American investment banks.

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exe34 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Funny, but this kinda implies that some person designed this way

How do you get to that implication? I'm missing a step or two I think...

	▲	kubb 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		From "do you want X? this is how you get X". This invokes an image of talking to a person who decided the how, because they can be questioned on whether they want the X.

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moolcool 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

When Facebook releases an AI Model for free: "Based Facebook. Zuckerberg is a genius visionary"

When Facebook does something unforgivable: "It's a systemic problem. Zuck is just a smol bean"

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kubb 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Zuck can take his model onto his private island and talk to it instead of trying to be a normal human being.

Don't conflate me with the personality worshippers on HN, I'm not one of them, even though it seems like it to you because I also post here. You won't find a single instance of me glazing tech leaders.

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FirmwareBurner 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

What's with this reductionist logic? Nothing is ever 100% good or 100% evil, everything is on a spectrum.

So just because Zuck does some good stuff for the tech world, doesn't mean he's work isn't a net negative to society.

	▲	moolcool 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> doesn't mean he's work isn't a net negative to society Oh he absolutely is. I'm just saying that it's common in this community to attribute the achievements of big companies to leadership (E.g. the mythology of Steve Jobs), but dismiss all the evil stuff to "systemic issues".