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Certainly Leroy sees it as simply semantics, but I truly and deeply believe that it is much deeper than a semantic argument, it boils down to a complete misunderstanding of epistemology and a complete lack of formalized classical metaphysical philosophy training existing among these tech people.
Maybe they have read some Bethem or Nietzsche (although, let's be frank, as much of a proto-fascist nut job Nietzsche was, it is extremely unlikely these fuckheads have even read more than a single book, by him, if that), but it is extremely apparent that these people either a) have absolute no idea what they are talking about when it comes to the nature of intelligence and epistemology or b) are purposefully lying about these well examined and well defined concepts within both classical philosophical or even modernist communications theory, or c) Actually follow a complete post-modernist understanding of 'intelligence' that is, imo, often extremely vaguely defined.
And honestly in all likelyhood it is a combination of all three of these or possibly even more elements.
My point is that boiling it down to saying "It is a lying machine", is extremely reductive and ultimately fails to communicate HOW and WHY these things are bad.