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> Washington State recently failed to advance legislation to make the fourth DUI have a jail sentence because it would be too expensive imprisoning that many people.

Mandatory perhaps but you're already likely to receive a sentence on your second one at the judge's discretion. That's how it should be IMO as mandatory sentences subvert the justice system thus shouldn't be permitted.

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> You can kill yourself with a kitchen knife in your own kitchen. Should be "heavily regulate" that too?

You can kill yourself with anything. That doesn’t make everything dangerous in the way we’re using the word.

Earlier you said “cars are literally the number one killer of children 0-14 in the United States.” That makes them dangerous in a way kitchen knives, which aren’t commonly killing children outside hypotheticals, are not.

> AI is, so far, like having a bottle of acetaminophen

If acetaminophen were sold as a service where a dude would come to your door to deliver each pill, sure.

Oh, and the delivery guy is paid a commission. And it isn’t a percentage of each delivery, but a multiple.

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So like a bottle of cough syrup it should have a child-lock cap and be required to be 18 and show I.D. to buy?
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First, cough syrup ID checking is not about deaths, as nearly none are associated with dextromethorphan abuse (17 from 2000-2010, and most not from OTC). But an estimated 980 deaths/year from acetaminophen abuse: https://www.propublica.org/article/tylenol-mcneil-fda-behind...

So that's a great example: harm adults because young people have access to something which is hardly dangerous, but set them free with multi-ton killing machines once they turn 16 years old and let them buy an actually-deadly medicine with no restrictions.

Regulation which says "adults should easily be able to enable client-side child protection settings on retail devices" would be fine. It's not okay for government to make it necessary for LLM providers to verify my identity.

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> nearly none are associated with dextromethorphan abuse

What do the numbers look like from before bottles were child locked?

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It's the same. Dextromethorphan gets you high; there were only 17 deaths from 2000-2010, as I said. That's per-week numbers for acetaminophen.
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