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Yeah, if we know they’re suicidal, it’s legitimately grippy socks time I guess?

But there is zero actually effective way to do that as an online platform. And plenty of ways that would cause more harm (statistically).

My comment was more ‘how the hell would you know in a way anyone could actually do anything reasonable, anyway?’.

People spam ‘Reddit cares’ as a harassment technique, claiming people are suicidal all the time. How much should the LLM try to guess? If they use all ‘depressed’ words? What does that even mean?

What happens if someone reports a user is suicidal, and we don’t do anything? Are we now on the hook if they succeed - or fail and sue us?

Do we just make a button that says ‘I’m intending to self harm’ that locks them out of the system?



Why are we imprisoning suicidal people? That will surely add incentive to have someone raise their hand and ask for help: taking their freedoms away...


Why do we put people in a controlled environment where their available actions are heavily restricted and their ability to use anything they could hurt themselves is taken away? When they are a known risk of hurting themselves or others?

What else do you propose?


Not putting them in controlled environments, but rather teaching them to control their environments


Huh?

To be clear, people in the middle of psychotic episodes and the like tend to not do very well at learning life skills.

Sometimes pretty good at stabbing random things/people, poisoning themselves, setting themselves on fire, etc.

There are of course degrees to all this, but it’s pretty rare someone is getting a 5150 because they just went on an angry rant or the like.

Many are in drug induced states, or clearly unable to manage their interface with the reality around them at the time.

Once things have calmed down, sure. But how do you think education in ‘managing the world around them’ is going to help a paranoid schizophrenic?




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