Because you've singled them out as the demons here. Yeah, they fucked up. So? We bought their packaged risks out of our own greed. We enabled their failures. Betting against the market works very well, as a matter of fact.

And scientists grow up in science vats, removed from the world and their peers? What, scientists have no clue about causality?

Sorry- the priest example just rolled off the tongue.

Alas, if guns, then no movie => no profits for the movie's investors.

Hold on now. That there are bad people. who are scientists, does not make science questionable. We don't hold god responsible for the child raping priests or what have you...

Since your approach is getting you nowhere on the science side, and, as it would appear your message has become a bit muddied, try this:

Yup. It's pointing towards AI, assuming no major shocks to the system (WW3, or some such). But nowhere is it pointing towards cyborgs fighting the AI's provolved naked mole rat-pigeon hybrid armies. And yet you keep adding these tidbits as if they were factual. You're adding these little stories for no reason…

But you're looking at this with pre-singularity eyes, judging what you cannot comprehend. And who says the AI won't be "human" or a part of "humanity"?

Maybe he's just being glib. Just because he's made the movie doesn't mean he's pondered all the moral/ethical/logical implications of said movie, nor does it mean that he can. He's answering a question on the the spot, off the top of his head. So he's not consistent. So what?

And...all scientists are amoral, and all scientific pursuit is done willy nilly, with no consideration to morals, ethics, etc?

And what model are you using to figure out that an AI will in fact take over in a few hundred years? Where is your data? How are you extrapolating?

You're not actually saying science is malicious, are you? In building up the worth of other belief systems, you're making it sound as if science is a dirty word.

Correction: It's a 25mm cannon, not a 250 mm cannon.

Or, who knows what benefits that kind or research will bring about for the rest of the world? Without invention, we'd all still be stuck in caves, or, worse, on the wide open plains, telling our dwindling numbers to tough things out.

Uh, the government doesn't make profits- it's not a for profit organization.

Will your overinflated ego and perception of your "skills" deploy like an airbag to protect you when you do fuck up the one time?

Do you know it's a teenager driving? Was it on video?

My thoughts exactly.

That's not how that works, but more power to you.

How far does Mavis get on a tank of gas?