The Paradox of Crypto Regulation

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I'm afraid of both so. Oh really. It seems like there are certain kinds of technologies where looking at them in advance and analyzing them carefully you can see there's going to be these kinds of tail risks whereas others it's much harder to see whether there could be any tail risk. So I think at least with the ones where like in advance it's pretty obvious you're going to have these serious risks maybe they should be regulated a lot earlier, he says. regulation is one way of accomplishing something that is the exact same thing that crypto cryptography is trying to accomplish which is how do you enforce a fair interaction between people? He believes on a long enough time horizon there's absolutely no

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