News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Bill Allowing Big Tech to Form “Techno-Governments” to Be Announced Today. Parent comment

Re:Bill Allowing Big Tech to Form “Techno-Governments” to Be... by nibbleshift on Friday February 26, 2021 @09:11AM (#26274890)
I wonder if this is just a straight-up "bad idea"

I think we've all read about ‘The Stanford Prison Experiment’ and how that ended.

Maybe something useful will come out of it and I am definitely in support of thinking outside of the box. But there are probably some major downsides to this...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Bill Allowing Big Tech to Form “Techno-Governments” to Be... by TheWellerman on Friday February 26, 2021 @09:15AM (#26274935)
Right! I get it that Nevada is struggling economically, but could they be making a rash decision? It's kind of hard to undue a town once it's been established.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Bill Allowing Big Tech to Form “Techno-Governments” to Be... by arbitrage on Friday February 26, 2021 @09:15AM (#26274932)
The Stanford Prison Experiment, while certainly titillating, suffered from extreme reproducibility issues. It was also wildly unethical, and any conclusions drawn from it are not scientifically sound in any meaningful sense.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Bill Allowing Big Tech to Form “Techno-Governments” to Be... by nibbleshift on Friday February 26, 2021 @09:20AM (#26274985)
I wonder if these techno-governments will have similar reproducibility issues.
[ Parent | on HN ]