Eugine_Nier comments on Rationality Quotes November 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 05 November 2013 01:50:29AM -1 points [-]

That's partly because humans are more expensive than test-tubes or mice. (I'm not sure how they compare with chimpanzees, given the prices that poor people in some parts of the world sell their children for.)

Note also that getting humans to experiment on by buying them from poor third world parents is generally frowned upon.