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I'm more referring to the fact that stuff like PowerPoint and Minecraft and who knows what are Turing-complete, albeit with awful performance.

Theoretically, you can have a totally owned device managed by Big Brother, yet generate AI smut with a general purpose CPU built in PowerPoint.

How do you possibly regulate that?



> How do you possibly regulate that?

The government could send an order to the software developer to patch out that turning completeness, and ban the software if it's not complied.

I get what you mean, it's never possible to 100% limit things. But if you limit things 98% so that the general public does not have access that's more than enough for authoritarian purposes.




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