YHK - yet another hacker news clone

> History does provide a great deal of guidance, however, about the use and misuse of government power. It tells us that the state is in fact likely the worst possible custodian for the most powerful publication and data analysis technologies.

Like, no. The worst custodian is someone like Thiel or Musk or Altman.

> In foreign countries, particularly the United Kingdom and Europe, where national governments have fewer constitutional guardrails on their power

Somehow their democracies hold longer and better then American one. For example, you don't get murders that get defended by top ranks, at least yet. They are also less likely to start random wars - that is structural it is not like those countries dont have government players who would like them too.

> Nobody knows the answer and history is no guide, save that apocalyptic predictions about new technologies have, to date, all been wrong.

By definition, apocalyptic predictions will always be wrong, until they are right exactly once.

Also know as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_illusion

To date, all apocalyptic predictions about nuclear war and nuclear winter have all been wrong too.

What's up with this split or democratic vs non-democratic countries? It doesn't even add-up because you can easily make a case that China is a democratic country with a far better system of governance and ability to control this problem than "Western" governments. Highly suggest this quick read on the different types of democracy in our glorious world[1].

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2193933.The_Real_Worl...