If math wasn’t there trial and error would have taken over. (Hell it might have been a lot of that anyway tbh…)

I think the difference is that AI isn’t a literal killing machine

Tell that to the Iranian schoolchildren Claude thought were viable military targets (you can’t, they’re dead as hell), and to the people using AI drones to loiter and auto select targets in Ukraine.

A gun is a killing machine.

A gun is a machine designed to fire a projectile, what you aim it at is what decides if it’s a “killing” machine or just a long distance hole puncher.

A bow is much the same, while it “is” a “killing machine,” designed for use in war and hunting, the archers shooting at targets at the range near my house aren’t murderers, they’re just target shooters. Would they use their bow to defend their house, just as I may use my gun that has only shot paper to do the same? Yes, they might, but only one of us is apparently deserving of ire from the uninformed, despite being the exact same situation.

If we’re going on “can’t date people who are statistically easy to trick” then half the population is right out just for being stupid, and then I guess when we get older that means dating is off the table, if phishing and scam calls are any indication.

What are we gonna use “A plane crashed between the border of Canada and America. Where do you bury the survivors?” As a “is this person fuckable” shibboleth?

Guns are a tool used to kill people, guns should be shut down and deleted now.

Stop. Putting. Internet. In Everything.

I beg to differ, by the logic used to justify the use of the f- and n- words by their respective groups, “I can say it because it was used against me.”

As a neurodivergent American child from the 90s, “that’s our word, we can say it.”

A) They should be

B) Cameras won’t stop shit if what they’re worried about came to pass, they’ll collect evidence that will be largely unusable, because it’ll be crowds they need to worry about, not “Steve.”

GrapheneOS been had this feature, don’t let apple tell you they invented it.