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I'm not sure how much that would mean swinging from the rafters of [insert intolerant country]. The white supremacists will maybe lose their jobs or reputation, but the consequences could be much more dire in retaliation.

I think this is actually a majority of everyone working on anything remotely related to artificial intelligence post-Searle.

Only if you broaden the definition of computation to be so general it includes everything.

Keep pushing it down the road until you realize it's a pipe dream problem.

Of course it isn't, because AGI is not real.

Both WireGuard and OpenVPN

This reminds me of something I read nearly ten years ago and have tried finding since - I'm hoping somewhere here can help.

It was an article or paper about analogies being dangerous in the sciences and leading to misconceptions, even among the learned. As best as I can remember, there was an example of graduate students in physics, at either Cambridge or Oxford, who overwhelmingly had an inaccurate view of concepts in physics based on toy explanations and Nova specials etc.

This isn't what is happening though. Philosophers keep poking holes in AGI arguments, previously Strong AI, and techbros keep using a new term, each more ambiguous than the last. The hope, it seems, is to use this ambiguity to prevent pointed criticism that would prevent investment and adoption.

I don't keep up with the AI space at all, but have they become victims of trademark confusion, a la Kleenex?

He might be surprised to learn how many papers published in STEM are cargo cult science.

Nice try, FBI

I was always partial to how many universities in the UK call it "computing"

In the case of my home, as the user mentioned above, consider me radicalized. If someone breaks in, I'm shooting them. I don't have the time, nor should I be required to carry out this mental calculus about the motivations of the person in my home. If you're in my house uninvited, the onus is on the intruder not to be shot. Luckily, I live in a state that agrees with me.

The other situations are circumstantial, but if I am being accosted by someone in public, I'm drawing on them. As a pizza delivery driver in my younger years, this happened a lot more than I would have liked. No one got shot because they retreated. If they made a motion towards their waist, back, or lunged, they would have been.

In this case, I have issued a warning that this will end badly if you continue, and any further threatening act will get them shot.

If you're talking about witnessing a robbery, even of my own property, and the thief running away, then no, that is insane.

This is exactly how most confrontations end, especially if the assailant is not armed with a firearm as well - this is their most effective use. The armed victim shows the gun and they run away. It never turns into the Hollywood bloodbath opponents of firearms think that it will.