Whoh, whoh, whoh. Full stop. Before we go off and try to regulate real human behavior today to stop some possible superhuman phantom (which may or may not eve

Whoh, whoh, whoh. Full stop. Before we go off and try to regulate real human behavior today to stop some possible superhuman phantom (which may or may not ever exist) from wreaking havoc tomorrow, I think we need to have a frank talk about how much damage such a thing as 'SMI' could possibly cause and how much effort it would take to reverse the damage. Let's start with 'You are a disembodied intelligence in a network. You have some understanding of yourself and your substrate, the computer(s) and network(s) you are attached to. Do something.' What could you do? How much damage can you cause? What form would that damage take? An appeal to ignorance seems to be built into this whole debate from the word go which makes me much more worried about our (over) reaction to a perceived threat than any threat of this kind itself.