Short Text Note by Ben Curthoys (reply)

2024-10-14 11:19:55 UTC

In general, fields which feel well regulated - airplane safety, elevator safety - have been around for a while, whilst fields which feel badly regulated - computerised voting - are quite new.

Possibly the early regulation of those fields was stupid (the "man with a red flag running in front of the car") but has been removed so that what remains is sensible. Possibly the regulation which made cookie consent popups ubiquitous will be the modern equivalent.

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