So you’re just going to causally mention a quintessential collection of sea shanties without giving any details?
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News@lemmy.world•FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agentsbyriverdoc@lemmy.world
3 daysSomeone sets it into a prompt loop.
News@lemmy.world•Gen X is drinking more as younger Americans cut back on alcohol, study findsbyriverdoc@lemmy.world
3 daysI think this is a good example of risk through the lens of policy versus risk through the lens of personal choices.
There is no safe amount of alcohol when it comes to a government recommending the use of a substance. The decision to say “one glass a day” by the government has been shown to lead to adverse health outcomes in the population.
You are speaking to the chance that a single individual will experience adverse health outcomes from choosing for themselves to have a glass a day. You are probably right that on an individual basis it is a reasonable risk to take (though I don’t know what the exact numbers suggest).
People often confuse policy level risk assessments with individual risk assessments, without considering the law of large numbers, and how a policy maker must make decisions for the population, not an individual.


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