[balamatom]

> You've way overshot the mark here.

Nah, I'm just having fun.

>You cite fear but that's attempting to have it both ways.

Huh?

>In the context of the quote precision is called for.

Because we must make it explicit that AI is not conscious? But why?

Since you can only ever measure impacts on reality -- what difference does it make to you if there's a consciousness that's causing them or not?

>It's called "an aggregate."

An individual is conscious. Does it follow from this that the set of all individuals is itself conscious? I.e. do you say that it's appropriate to model humanity as sort of one giant human?