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1. chasd00 · 1790595720 · focus · HN ↗

   I’ve never seen CEOs work so hard to make the public aware of how dangerous and out of control their flagship product is. It makes me automatically assume they’re scheming about something else like regulatory capture to protect their market.

   1. brookst · 1790601897 · focus · HN ↗

      It is weird but I try to resist the conspiratorial take.

      It may be as simple as:

      * they believe they’re going to make trillions no matter what

      * they’ve seen tobacco and what’s coming for oil companies and figure nobody will be able to say they hid the dangers

      * they see a 100+ party prisoner’s dilemma and know that someone will defect so the optimal strategy is to defect

      To me that seems a lot simpler.

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