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I'm totally fine with consensual human experimentation that somehow threads the needle around exploitation of the poor - just not sure how we do the latter part short of requiring experimentees to pass a minimum net-worth threshold?

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I think the closest would be: if anyone involved ever complains to authorities at all, everyone involved gets in trouble. If no one ever complains, no trouble. Everyone involved is forever at the mercy of everyone else involved.

I see perverse incentives to ablate complaint origination to expression pathways, or complaint system dependencies.

Or not so perverse, as this makes running these ventures much safer. Safety first!

Complaining to the authorities needs to come with a cost, otherwise people who don’t believe in the research or are looking for a payday will join just to complain

I consider that a feature in this idea, you have to believe in whatever you want to human experimentation for, enough to select who you include very carefully, and ultimately still take that risk.

Or...at the mercy of a scary man with a big wrench. Every single post you've put in this thread is a volatile mix of idealistic, naive, and sociopathic. So, obviously you'll be a tech CEO in 10 years.

??? This is the only post I made in this thread?

Competitor will pay a former customer to complain.

Make sure subjects actually pay, instead of getting paid for being a subject?

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