It’s pretty simple. Side-loading can be exploited by social engineering.
Two very bad consequences for me if sideloading were easy:
1. There would be no safe product to recommend to my aging parents who would be vulnerable to social engineering.
2. A company with a popular produce like Facebook could go outside the store, which would normalize side-loading, thus rendering argument like ‘people who want safety can stick to the store’ moot.
The arguments about not wanting to control what other people do are moot. If you want a platform with side-loading, buy android.
> LLMs are more impressive than humans and animals in that they only have access to text to build a world model from a tabula rasa.
They don’t build a world model at all. They make inferences from text.
Considering they have been trained on 100,000 books, and all of Wikipedia, they are remarkably unintelligent, and really only able to produce text that is consistent with what they have been trained on.
It’s not clear that the two aren’t one and the same. MDMA treatments for PTSD are not ongoing medications. Generally they are just 3 sessions of assisted therapy producing a huge reduction in symptoms.
If we can reduce the level of trauma and fear in society, we can reduce associated behaviors.
> The state mucking around in private industry to achieve political and national security goals and wage information warefare is as American as hamburgers.
Ludicrous false equivalency.
The USA doesn’t have laws preventing its citizens from criticizing the government, nor are its corporations required by law to participate in policing speech.
This is the reason why criticism of China is so muted.
The obvious counterargument would be that having a real treatment for PTSD and other fear related conditions would likely ameliorate the social issues.
Yes, taking guns away would reduce shootings, but so would helping people who are so fearful they feel the need to shoot someone who isn’t threatening them.