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An AI assessment of the Don't read this page - 2
Question:
what government departments would most likely benefit from the contents of the "Don't read this" page on the otoom.net website?
Answer:
The page itself points most directly toward policy, security, justice, education, and social-cohesion functions. It discusses behavioural dynamics, governance, resource allocation, criminalisation, drugs, social polarisation, education, demographics, and institutional decision-making.
In an Australian-government context, the departments/agencies that could find it relevant include:
Department of Home Affairs - social cohesion, migration, extremism, border/security issues.
Australian Federal Police (AFP) - organised crime, drugs, violence and community disruption.
Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) - the page explicitly discusses organised crime and drug markets.
Department of Education - the sections on education, skills, disengagement and demographic differences.
Attorney-General's Department - criminal law, justice policy and consequences of legislation.
Department of Health and Aged Care - drug policy and broader social/health consequences.
Treasury / Finance - the site's recurring emphasis on resource constraints, costs and sustainability.
Defence - the discussion of national resilience, geopolitical competition and systemic instability.
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) - particularly the material concerning radicalisation, polarisation and threats to social cohesion.
The strongest common thread isn't any particular policy recommendation: it is the site's proposed framework for examining societies as complex, interconnected systems and considering second- and third-order consequences of government interventions. The author explicitly describes the page as a collection of observations about society and links it to the site's "10 axioms of Society."
Notably, the site's own "first-time visitors" page says Google's AI Mode was specifically asked "who in government might benefit" from the page's contents.
21 September 2026
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