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The Turing test is most specifically highlighted in movies like Blade Runner or Ex Machina where it's a noire with a lone robot in a room being tested. In reality the future is more like Westworld where there are so many robots that can pass a basic Turing test that people are constantly engaged in more intense Turing tests at all times.

Meh. I think the logic I present is simple enough to follow,

It is, and it's not an invaluable to lens to look through.

I'm not discouraging additional thought, rather dismissing more complex models that muddy the proverbial waters.

By saying 'that's it', you absolutely are discouraging additional thought. You are confidently saying that that is the only possible lens to view things through.

At an extremely basic level, another lens is the anarchism vs communism lens, i.e. one of distributed decentralized systems, or one of controlled centralized systems. And there are numerous other lens that you can view the left/wing right/wing divide, on top of the fact that that divide varies wildly by region.

Saying 'this oversimplified thing is the way it is, stop thinking about it' is fundamentally a fascist message.

Do some self reflection.

Do they regrow their body or a new body made from the same parts?

Lol, a thought terminating phrase isn't an argument.

'That's it' is the fascist thought terminating part.

It does not invite further inquiry or scrutiny, it acts like that's the only possible lens to view left wing / right wing through, when at its core, left wing / right wing is a massive oversimplification of literally the entire population's political views into a binary us vs them pattern.

It'd be like dividing the entirety of the animal kingdom into birds and not-birds and saying 'Birds have wings, not-birds don't have wings. That's it.'

No, just pointing out that oversimplifying things and then using a thought terminating phrase to make it sound like you made a conclusive point is what fascists do.

There are lots of ways to think about it. Saying 'think about it this way, that's it, stop thinking about it', is fundamentally a fascist message.

A lot of the nuance is also one of threat assessment, and risk tolerance.

We can prepare for a situation where we're attacked by the US, but given all probabilities is that worth it compared to preparing for a situation where we get attacked by China or Russia, or is that even worth considering vs preparing for a situation where we can ramp up industrial military production as fast as possible and become a resource rich manufacturing powerhouse?

There's no way of knowing which path the world will go down, and preparing for everything simply isn't possible, so every decision is going to be a matter of what risks to take for what potential benefits.

Find someone running a service or a company for that.