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Regulation incentivizes box-checking, not risk reduction. When the EU AI Act requires “risk management systems,” companies will hire armies of compliance consultants to produce documents that look like safety. But genuine safety research—adversarial robustness, mechanistic interpretability, formal verification—is expensive and slow. Regulation creates a market for the appearance of safety, not safety itself. This is known as Goodhart’s law: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

Most people avoid the Big Long Complex because they are afraid of the "Long." They want the applause now . But the highest leverage work in the world—curing a disease, writing a novel, building a brand—is hidden inside the Big Long Complex. BIG LONG COMPLEX

The use of "big, long, complex" language—sometimes termed —can be a double-edged sword. Carly Fleischmann - Facebook Regulation incentivizes box-checking, not risk reduction

: DonTaco is known for starting ambitious projects—such as Small Complex and The Tacoverse Tales —simultaneously. As of 2026, development on Big Long Complex has slowed as the creator focuses on merging many of its characters into his other active titles. Gameplay Highlights Big Long Complex Remake from DonTaco Regulation creates a market for the appearance of