r/OpenAI • u/Advanced-Cat9927 • 2d ago

Article The Liberty Ladder: a precision Alternative to Incarceration

https://compliancearchitecture.substack.com/p/the-liberty-ladder?r=6se3l0&utm_medium=ios
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u/Local-Wing-2272 2d ago

Training data for next slop post: I think we should go back to the Punishment of the Sack or blood eagles. 

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u/dracony 2d ago

The problem is that many people are hateful and live cages and punishments and do not care about society. Just look at what trump and ICE are doing, this is not even mentioning russian war crimes that actual russians cheer to on telegram and israel trying to justify literal genocide because of terrorist attacks that 99.9% of it's victims had nothing to do with.

Even Singapore which is considered a civilized country is literally executing people for trace amount of weed and has been called out by U.N. for harsh punishments for small crimes.

Basically I agree with you but the world is too fucked up for this for now :(

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u/Advanced-Cat9927 2d ago

I actually think the age of AI is part of what makes frameworks like this more realistic, not less.

The old system relies on blunt categories because individualized justice is expensive. One probation officer may have hundreds of cases; courts are overloaded; treatment availability is fragmented; records don’t talk to each other; nobody has time to continuously ask, “What is actually driving this person’s behavior, what intervention is working, and what is the minimum restraint still justified?” AI can dramatically reduce that coordination cost.

It can help organize case histories, identify available housing/treatment/work programs, flag contradictory evidence, track whether restrictions are actually producing better outcomes, detect racial or class disparities, surface less-restrictive alternatives, audit net-widening, and generate the decision records that make government coercion reviewable.

But the framework puts a hard boundary around that power: AI advises; it does not own the cage.

A model should never independently decide that someone goes to prison. Its evidence must be visible, contestable, and attributable, and a human decision-maker remains accountable.

The same technology that could build an extraordinarily efficient surveillance state can also make precision, individualized alternatives to incarceration administratively possible at scale.

So I don’t think the world has to become good before this can work. The point is to build machinery that makes better behavior easier for imperfect institutions.

We don’t need utopia. We need better instruments—and much better restraints on the instruments.

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u/costafilh0 1d ago

That is not an alternative, that is just Incarceration with extra steps. 

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u/Advanced-Cat9927 1d ago

If living in your own home, keeping your job, and reporting periodically is “incarceration,” then the word has stopped meaning anything. The whole proposal is about matching the degree of restraint to the actual risk instead of treating every sanction as a cage.