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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?

• coryrc 2mo ago
  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-the-numbers#:~:text=Data%20compiled%20by%20the%20U.S.%20Food%20and,annually%20as%20a%20result%20of%20acetaminophen%20poisoning. 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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  • JumpCrisscross 2mo ago
    > nearly none are associated with dextromethorphan abuse What do the numbers look like from before bottles were child locked?
    • coryrc 2mo ago
      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.