Comment by shalmanese

I mean, the root cause of this is quite mundane.

People like to think that intelligence is some intrinsic force but it's far better thought of as situational. We are contextually smarter or dumber based on the emotions we're trying to process from a situation and how our motivation reasoning allows us to avoid certain negative emotions.

The subset of people the OP is trying to argue against are people who are otherwise normally intelligent but have an emotional need for AI to be unimportant that they're unable to process so they build a social community of terrible arguments.

The nature of the internet is that visibility is terribly correlated (and often anti-correlated) with popularity so OP thinks this is some large contingent of people when it's instead algorithmically served conflict generators.

Writing against that is also an algorithmic conflict generator, as evidenced by the number of upvotes here. The correct response is to realize that people putting up terrible arguments about AI don't actually care about AI, they're using this issue to process unresolved trauma from other, unrelated areas of their life and taking their ideas literally instead of seriously is a waste and diversion. There are plenty of smart people with far more nuanced views that still disagree with you where they're interested in the content of the argument.