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> The strings "bomb" and "attack" never occur.

What do you think an "airstrike" is, then?

Trying to argue that certain strings don't occur in the page is the kind of argument that gets brought out when someone is desperate for any technicality to avoid having to concede a point.

This level of weaponized pedantry is what makes trying to debate anything with LessWrong-style rationalists so impossible: There's always another volley of gish gallop to be fired at you when you get too close to anything that goes against their accepted narratives.

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You were trying to get people to view what EY wrote in the time.com article as an encouragement to engage in criminal violence (as opposed to state-sponsored violence a la an airstrike on a data center) such as the firebombing of Sam's home when in actuality (both before and after the publication of the time.com article) EY has explicitly argued against doing any crimes particularly violent crimes against the AI enterprise.

Knowing that most readers do not have time to read the entire article, I brought up how many times various strings occur in the article to make it less likely in the reader's eyes that there are passages in the article other than the one passage I quoted that could possibly be interpreted as advocating criminal violence. I.e., I brought it up to explain why I quoted the 3 (contiguous) paragraphs I quoted, but not any of the other paragraphs.

In finding and selecting those 3 paragraphs, I was doing your work for you since if this were a perfectly efficient and fair debate, the burden of providing quotes to support your assertion that EY somehow condones the firebombing of Sam's home would fall on you.

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