Patrick McKenzie

The outrageous part is not that you wrote that down in an email.

The outrageous part is you, with full knowledge of it, engaged in something that is outrageously unconstitutional, immoral, illegal, and evil to the applause of people in your social circle.

And everyone involved in the story thinks that they're the good guy in it.

If you write that email, you are not the good guy in the story.

I think there will be a limited hangout and walk back of some particular things.

And do I predict that?

And probably, you know, there does exist an injunction.

I predict that that continues to happen in the future.

Okay.

What do I know?

I'm just a software guy, but do people want to achieve power?

The tech industry descriptively has power because it is good at achieving results in the physical world.

This is certainly not going to be the last time that someone desiring power thinks like, okay, can I force you to give me the power that you have accumulated?

And like that is, you know, ultimately like this is fundamentally political decision about how we construct our democracy and we should make good decisions about that.

Yeah, I don't accept that that is the only thing possible for us.

I don't accept that the United States is incapable of doing nice things.

We can't accept that.

We have to be optimistic about the future.

Otherwise, what are we doing here?

And in the tech industry, we know it is not like a physical law of reality or of large institutions that one cannot make systems that work.