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"Solved" (heavy quotes) because instiutionalizing dozens of millions of people with no improvement is a massive crime in and of itself.

That's like those stories of LLMs saying "I fixed the vulnerability in your app" by deleting the project entirely

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Wouldn’t you say that the lowered crime rate enjoyed by the innocent as a result is an improvement?

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Why not just incarcerate everyone between the age of 15-27, if what we're worried about is crime rate.

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Because most of those people are not repeat violent criminals? We only need to incarcerate repeat violent offenders to reduce crime noticeably. This is not controversial. The data is linked-to above.

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> Because most of those people are not repeat violent criminals

Oh so you do believe in justice

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If we incarcerated everyone, it would be even lower.

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Reductio ad absurdum

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