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.
Side loading is already possible. Yes, you can only do it for a few days at a time, but that's why there's an easy tool that will refresh the application for you.
I haven't heart of social engineering involving https://github.com/altstoreio/AltStore but maybe you know something I don't. Either way, installing apps onto iOS devices over the network exists today.
Wouldn't it be fairly straightforward to lock down a particular device with the unlocking step tied to another phone ? Like let's say I buy a phone for my kid and I lock it down using my iphone. For installing any app on my kids phone they require some form of authentication from my device. With more people in the loop I feel social engineering becomes more difficult
My family buys their own phones but I’m assumed to be tech support when things go wrong. I do not want the responsibility of locking down their phones (and neither they do).
> 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.
> 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.
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.
Every time he talks about valuing truth and free speech, he is lying.