YHK - yet another hacker news clone

Feudalism is about the right to violence. Do any of these organizations have private armies? No private armies (I suppose in modern times, also private air forces, tank battalions, nuclear warheads and nuclear triads, drone divisions...), no feudalism. Brutal suppression of underclass folks can be done with or without the state.

Feudalism itself had strong variance in the amount of suppression of the underclass. The albigensian crusade, for example (the anti-cathar crusade) was to suppress the egalitarian anti-clerical sect which had been successfully renegotiating the relation between clerics, nobility and peasants in the favor of the peasants for 100 years by then. That was successful in mostly killing them all. But the dithsmarchen were able to successfully have a de facto peasant republic for 200, 300 years after successfully repelling an invasion in the late 12th century and they got back into the holy roman empire by a negotiated settlement, by dint of being way more armed and harder to invade.

Yeppp, I've been seeing this Jacob Coxon [0] guy popping up all over legacy media for the past couple days nonstop...he claims he quit OpenAI and Anthropic because the models are getting 'too smart' and that's dangerous, etc. The typical AI fears mongering drivel, without seemingly any criticism, at all, of the companies he quit supposedly because of these AI fears... and of course the mainstream media appearances prefix the interviews with this guy with 'this is not a marketing stunt'[1]... which, obviously, it is.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthropic-researcher-jacob-coxo...

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/09/tech/ai-anthropic-safety