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If Musk wants "zero regulations as a baseline" for the US you can call that an educated prediction. And he seems to be just generally attacking all sorts of th

If Musk wants "zero regulations as a baseline" for the US you can call that an educated prediction. And he seems to be just generally attacking all sorts of things he has no clue about, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42996385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42996385 And every time I have heard him talk it was just a gish gallop, not to mention the utterly idiotic (and false) stuff he boosts on Twitter. I haven't even seen anything that would lead me to believe he could seriously think about these things, not to mention showing any evidence he ever did.

scarab92 2y ago
Zero regulations is a sensible baseline. You then add any regulations with a clear demonstrated need. Otherwise, you're saying the baseline should be to keep regulations even if they aren't needed.
- computerthings 2y ago
  > “Regulations, basically, should be default gone,” Musk said. “Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in.” > we’ve just got to do a wholesale, spring cleaning of regulation "we can always add it back in" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976708
  - scarab92 2y ago
    That sounds.. obvious? Regulations should need to justify their existance, they shouldn't just exist by default without a reason.
    - computerthings 2y ago
      they don't "exist by default" or without reason
- sundaeofshock 2y ago
  Zero regulations is an asinine position. The vast bulk of regulations that were added over the past hundred years were in response to demonstrable harms. If someone wants to get rid of an existing regulation, it is up to them to show why it is no longer needed.
- johnnyanmac 2y ago
  >You then add any regulations with a clear demonstrated need. The US has, for 300 years. I'm sure countries within the EU have an even longer history of that. >you're saying the baseline should be to keep regulations even if they aren't needed. No, they already proved their needs. The onus is on the new plantiffs to disprove the needs. No one's done that so far.

scarab92 2y ago

Zero regulations is a sensible baseline. You then add any regulations with a clear demonstrated need. Otherwise, you're saying the baseline should be to keep regulations even if they aren't needed.

computerthings 2y ago
> “Regulations, basically, should be default gone,” Musk said. “Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in.” > we’ve just got to do a wholesale, spring cleaning of regulation "we can always add it back in" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976708
- scarab92 2y ago
  That sounds.. obvious? Regulations should need to justify their existance, they shouldn't just exist by default without a reason.
  - computerthings 2y ago
    they don't "exist by default" or without reason
sundaeofshock 2y ago
Zero regulations is an asinine position. The vast bulk of regulations that were added over the past hundred years were in response to demonstrable harms. If someone wants to get rid of an existing regulation, it is up to them to show why it is no longer needed.
johnnyanmac 2y ago
>You then add any regulations with a clear demonstrated need. The US has, for 300 years. I'm sure countries within the EU have an even longer history of that. >you're saying the baseline should be to keep regulations even if they aren't needed. No, they already proved their needs. The onus is on the new plantiffs to disprove the needs. No one's done that so far.