This is what happens when you co-opt vernacular language to draw in research money. Had researchers stuck with a new technical term for their innovations, they

This is what happens when you co-opt vernacular language to draw in research money. Had researchers stuck with a new technical term for their innovations, they wouldn’t have to convince people that their metaphor is not a metaphor. They could just pursue some “hypercapable general computing system” that does all the same things as “Level 5 AGI” and barely stir a whiff of controversy or debate. Regulation would be a boring technical matter rather than opportunity for political grandstanding, and HN would be cluttered by 44.34% fewer endlessly repetitive comment threads.