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   "text": "Where jurisdictions are not compelled to agree on the same rule, some jurisdiction will try a different rule, and will do so more quickly, when changed economic circumstances make a different rule optimal.",
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   "text": "Dynamic elements built into the regulatory structure would allow regulators to continually adapt to new market environments, to financial innovation, and to changes in financial markets that are themselves caused by financial regulation.",
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   "text": "Contrary to criticism that blockchains are designed to dodge regulation, the authors argue the actual goal of decentralized supply chain recording is effective, efficient, adaptive regulation that ultimately exceeds the current level of oversight.",
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   "text": "Conventional governance methods that are reactive or fixed to ex-post solutions are insufficient for governing technologies whose behavior changes continuously after deployment.",
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   "text": "Legacy ex-ante regulatory attempts fail because they assume a static technological landscape, while AI development is dynamic and requires rules that are adaptable and responsive.",
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