“Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.”

—  Eliezer Yudkowsky

a comment on Hacker News (April 2012) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3834636

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