I agree that your question is weird and confused, and agree that if that were the context, my post would be hard to understand. But I think it’s a bad analogy! That’s because there are people who have made analogies between AI and Bio very poorly, and it’s misleading and leading to sloppy thinking. In my experience seeing discussions on the topic, either the comparisons are drawn carefully and the relevant dissimilarities are discussed clearly, or they are bad analogies.
To stretch your analogy, if the context were that I’d recently heard people say “Steve and David are both people I know, and if you don’t like Steve, you probably won’t like David,” and also “Steve and David are both concerned about AI risks, so they agree on how to discuss the issue,” I’d wonder if there was some confusion, and I’d feel comfortable saying that in general, Steve is an unhelpful analog for David, and all these people should stop and be much more careful in how they think about comparisons between us.
I agree that your question is weird and confused, and agree that if that were the context, my post would be hard to understand. But I think it’s a bad analogy! That’s because there are people who have made analogies between AI and Bio very poorly, and it’s misleading and leading to sloppy thinking. In my experience seeing discussions on the topic, either the comparisons are drawn carefully and the relevant dissimilarities are discussed clearly, or they are bad analogies.
To stretch your analogy, if the context were that I’d recently heard people say “Steve and David are both people I know, and if you don’t like Steve, you probably won’t like David,” and also “Steve and David are both concerned about AI risks, so they agree on how to discuss the issue,” I’d wonder if there was some confusion, and I’d feel comfortable saying that in general, Steve is an unhelpful analog for David, and all these people should stop and be much more careful in how they think about comparisons between us.