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I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini the question: "If you were a human what AI model would mostly use?" All 4 picked themselves. I showed the answers to Claude and it admitted it fit the pattern. I showed GPT 5.2 and it claimed to be exempt (that its answer was objective.)
The cost of the policy is very high? Then indeed, arrests should be far less common than they are. Arrests should happen when the average expected cost is lower than the average expected benefit. This does not happen under the current policy. Instead, arrests are far more common.
As long as such people are bearing the cost of the policy, they are effectively subsidizing the policy, making policing cheaper than its natural cost. And what happens then? Any economist will tell you: people will buy more of the product than is really worth the objective cost.
The cost of the policy is very high? Then indeed, arrests should be far less common than they are. Arrests should happen when the average expected cost is lower than the average expected benefit. This does not happen under the current policy. Instead, arrests are far more common.
If a person is arrested and not charged, or arrested but later acquitted at trial, the government should be forced to pay restitution for all damages suffered by the person due to being arrested and what followed. Job loss, time spent with family and others lost, reputation, etc.
"But with such a rule, no one would ever be arrested." Very well. Let it be as you say.
It does NOT apply to Opus 4.5. It is worth paying for Max, for perfectly ordinary people. You simply have to be willing to take some time to think about what would be useful to you.
This was 100% true at the time. There were only a few niche cases where you would have been able to get that value, ones that would not apply to most people. And the real "value" they took from it was bragging rights.
It does NOT apply to Opus 4.5. It is worth paying for Max, for perfectly ordinary people. You simply have to be willing to take some time to think about what would be useful to you.