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   "text": "Ex post trial and error rulemaking requires as a precondition that information about optimized rule requirements becomes available, and in an age of exponential innovation that information may never materialize or may arrive too late for the method to work.",
   "abstract": "A prerequisite for ex-post trial-and- error rulemaking is thus the availability of the information on optimized rule requirements. In an age of exponential innovation, that information may not materialize at all or may not materialize in time for the trial-and-error rulemaking to be effective.",
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   "text": "The ex post facts-based approach to rulemaking worked historically because the optimal requirements for rules only become clear once stable and presumptively optimal rules have already emerged as suboptimal; the availability of that information is therefore a prerequisite for rulemaking.",
   "abstract": "change. The ex-post facts-based approach to rulemaking has functioned in the existing regulatory framework because optimal requirements for rules do become clear when stable and presumptively optimal rules emerge as suboptimal. A prerequisite for",
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