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The technology could also be used by oppressive governments to harass dissenters (and anyone else they might target). Essentially modern, high-tech COINTELPRO.

Also he had been under FBI surveillance, which he was apparently aware of.

Conversely, these models open up philosophical questions of "exactly what a human is" beyond language abilities. How much of what we think, do, and perceive comes from the use of language?

I wonder how effective it would be at finding exploitable security holes in code.

The relation is virtually always bidirectional, and often forms complex, dynamic feedback loops. Simple causal analysis can fail in such situations.

This is reminiscent of Soviet psychiatry and the diagnosis of "sluggish schizophrenia" for dissidents.

It's already an English translation of a French paraphrase of a text of unknown provenance.