I’m reminded of that recent embarrassing display of US government where the TikTok CEO was peppered with the kinds of questions that betray the fact that the congresscritter doesn’t comprehend the topic.
If they wanted real answers they’d say, “I yield my time to this SME I brought in.” But they’re just there to look tough on whatever.
> E2E can be explained to an 8 year old.
Can.
Also, the main problem here isn't explaining the tech itself (although the quotations in the link indicate this is also a problem), but rather explaining why it's (a) actually good, and (b) impossible to prevent even if it wasn't good.
But even if it was the tech itself, most people don't have maths skills and fundamentally don't (care to?) think logically.
When I was a kid, I couldn't understand why the adults kept joking about why it was so hard to stop the VCR from flashing 12:00 when I found it trivial.
(I think we're getting to the point where you could run an image detection process on the display itself, totally circumventing any encryption. This will have a lot of consequences that are totally obvious and yet it may be done regardless).
And to be even more honest, technical people have a very hard time getting their point across non-technical people and engaging in politics
Sure, I'd be as surprised as anyone else if it could straight up write good laws, but it can almost certainly talk in political jargon better than any of us software developers can manage.
You lunatic!! You have damned us all! The genie, it is released, the bottle broken, forever unstopped.
PoliticianGPT, oh the humanity!
I've lost track of which version passed which exams, but recent news suggests v4 scores highly on (at least one) bar exam (I don't know if bar exam is "noob lawyer" or "good lawyer", but either way, even v3.5 can do more than me).