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Eliezer, do you mind if I copy this parable (or rather, a version of it that's translated into Finnish) into a book on developing technologies that I'm currently writing (with the proper credit given, of course)? I think this really demonstrates the problem quite well.
(And while I'm asking, I'd like to ask the same permission for your other posts as well, in case I run into any others that I'd like to include word-for-word - this is the first one that I'd want to do that for, though there are a good bunch of others that I'll be citing and just summarizing their content.)