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It would seem most likely that the Marines were called strictly to protect federal buildings, facilities and agents. The problem I see is the latter category. I am personally fine with National Guard being used to protect people and infrastructure when appropriate and when confined to federal facilities, and I'm even fine with the use of military to protect federal facilities... however, the second active duty military engages civilians 'on the streets' we have martial law and that's a whole new can o worms with explosive possibilities for escalation.
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While many developmental paths to HE AGI exist (eg. Brain Emulation, Seed, etc) It is my humble opinion that our most likely initial path will follow brain-inspired cognitive architectures that will certainly include the 5 key categories listed (Perception, Understanding, Cognition/Reasoning, Consciousness and Actuation). Ethical considerations aside, this is likely our best option to allow for alignment somewhat analogous to moral consideration between sophisticated human. Each of these distinct systems will of course converge to produce consciousness and each will incorporate multiple DNN/LSTM/MORL/etc. subsystems. Sidenote: current GPT LLM systems for the most part 'deepfake' reasoning with statistical inference but I estimate a shift towards continuous learning systems much closer in architecture to our own neo-cortex within 5 to 10 years.
Feedback and constructive criticism is welcomed on the discord I setup for this project here: https://discord.gg/zj3HNQUXsf