In India perhaps.

In Commonwealth countries such as the UK, AU, CA, NZ, etc. teachers being paid but not attending doesn't go unnoticed and would be part of an award (sick leave, paid vacation time, etc).

What I'm hearing from your anecdote is that in India the government is unable to track it's own employees.

You can't do that any more. Too many ISPs, especially mobile carriers, don't hand out anything resembling a fixed IP address any more. It's CGNAT and constantly changing IP addresses alllll the time now.

One can simultaneously believe AGI is possible, be only modestly sceptical that our current methods are likely to yield it in the near term and still find the religious ferocity enveloping its discussion silly.

> saying that the human brain cognitive capabilities cannot be reproduced on other types of substrates is stupid at this point

Straw man. Nobody argued this. The discussion is around how urgent it is to policy treat a future hypothetical.

Non-deterministic behavior via code.

Dare I say the GPU bought today won't be economical in 3-4 years time?

The US frontier labs have an incentive to do deals with large firms to act like a contract research organization, taking royalties on creations/discoveries. Alex Karp called this out in his rant ("Why charge for tokens, take a %") and he's basically right about this.