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> How do you effectively shift from that negligent approach to the careful diligence demanded when testing with people?

Presumably as easily as people turn from casually eating beef to raising their children without suffocating them at the slightest inconvenience? People have very different standards of care for humans and animals.

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These animals are intended to simulate humans for purposes of research, though. A disregard for doing the experimentation properly has the potential to carry over into production usage, just like coding newbies who write code with SQL injection holes saying "eh I'll fix it later" are practicing writing insecure code.

"Oops wrong glue/vertebra/implant" folks are not people I want anywhere near my brain surgery.

But they are proving they can't even be bothered to meet the much lower standard of care required for animals.

Presumably they are utility maximizers who assume that the 'standards of care' for animals won't actually be rigorously enforced.

Humans sue.

So do the parents of children but it hasn't stopped flaws in Tesla's FSD. Not entirely directly comparable, sure, but it's the same attitude of "get it to market before it's ready".

"FSD", surely

If there's one thing we've learned from Elon's acquisition of Twitter, it's that his default response to "you'll get sued" is a confident belief he can beat the rap.

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