[biztos]

I'm sure there are some extremely intelligent and driven people working on internet surveillance or psychological manipulation, but if the only reason they're doing it is for the dump-trucks of money then I have zero confidence they will go work on interesting and important problems should MetaGoo somehow tank.

They'll just go wherever the largest dump-trucks are offered. Because they already did that, and it made them relatively wealthy, and yet there they still are.

[remarkEon]

I don’t disagree with you, but the destruction of those particular business models would still be a net good for society, no? And these people, ostensibly smart and driven, would seek their dump trucks somewhere else. It’s a guess that those other places with the dump trucks up for grabs are better then Metagoo, but I’ll take it.