Not sure why you were flagged either -- it was a reasonable comment that clearly spawned a discussion! People are strange.

> There's no essential reason to have utility companies, dams, nuclear arsenals, factory production floors, mines, cars, planes, ships, etc all be computerized

Indeed, this is a great first step! Once agentic loops and multi-purpose robotics can be combined we do face an issue of strengthening the airgap.

> And none of that pie in the sky shit has anything to do with language models.

I'm of the opinion that we should be mindful about the capabilities we allow a truly non-human mind to perform. Blocking via solid security and airgapping for critical systems makes sense to me for most cases, aligned I believe to your thoughts here. The recent ChatGPT hack shows that the "paperclip apocalypse" is still instructive. These systems target edge cases and zerodays to cheat!