Oh, good grief. Flag my comment, then. Per the HN guidelines that is the preferable action:

> Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

Of course I disagree with "egregious," did it need saying. After an insult like that, I promise you, no one in my bar would consider I had acted egregiously at all. But I admit it is a surprise to see you violate the site's discussion guidelines, in the very effort to enforce them.

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nandomrumber 15 hours ago | parent [-]

> After an insult like that

Did I miss something?

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throwanem 15 hours ago | parent [-]

> "real" AI being much more like a charismatic extroverted socialite

As I said in my opening clause here, I fit that description exactly, and "'real' AI," as my original interlocutor would have it, sounds nothing like me.

The insult arises from the fact that "'real' AI" sounds nothing particularly like anyone, because it isn't any one: if it had eyes there would be nothing happening behind them. This is why it keeps driving people insane: there are cognitive vulnerabilities here which, for most humans, have until a couple of years ago been about as realistic to need to worry about as a literal alien invasion.

To a human, being compared with something which can only pretend to humanity - and that not at all well! - is an insult. It should be an insult, too. Anyone is welcome to try and fail to convince me otherwise.

	▲	thrownthatway 15 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> I fit that description exactly That’s what you think of yourself, but I dunno man, you just sound like a massive fuckwit. Did someone step in dogshit and walk through your living room, or is it just that time of month?
	▲	vaginaphobic 15 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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