as someone who bats for the other team, the combination of your faction’s hegemonic ubiquity and your more limited conceptions of heroism makes it really easy to read your literature from our perspective in order to gain spiritual insight and inspiration

for example Milton’s Lucifer in Paradise Lost taught me great lessons on what it means to stand up again when all seems lost

“Awake, arise or be forever fallen” ✊ 👆 👇

Anyway I hope this was helpful

No clue what you’re talking about at this point. I am talking about real tech that is currently deployed in middle America. I am not talking about pretend or fiction or MI-6 or whatever. Please.

This is pretend.

Thanks for the actual input, people who haven’t worked around this kind of hardware are mostly limited to goofing around like it’s sci-fi when it’s mostly John Deere style nonsense

There aren’t short-range EMP burst emitters, that’s sci-fi pretend. These are real robot flashlight caddies they deploy at outdoor malls in Ohio.

Have you seen a teardown or something like that anywhere?

So it has been with all political carrots in the United States my entire adult life, regardless of who is in charge, which is why I don’t believe in nations or electoralism anymore

The reason your someone might have thought this was a stupid question is because

• there is no evidence that AGI is imminent or even possible
• current tech labeled as AI is really limited in very boring ways, like LLMs

If some thing gets sold as an AGI, it will be a Mechanical Turk, As in, it will be a magic trick that actually uses human laborers like Amazon’s “AI Store” where you just walk out with your purchases. “If it works, it’s mechanical turks.”