If we're gonna make vaguely sweeping comparisons to religion, I would like to point out that much of this kind of instinctive aversion to EA probably comes, its

If we're gonna make vaguely sweeping comparisons to religion, I would like to point out that much of this kind of instinctive aversion to EA probably comes, itself, from the secular protestantism pervading US culture. - Outcome matters more than the intention of the person trying to do a good act? Absurd; here, I can even prove it with an absurd example! - Trying, at all, to build a framework for good and bad different from that handed down to us? How dare they. - Artificial general intelligence? Pointless to worry about, only humans can be really intelligent because [strikethrough]they have a soul[/strikethrough] there's something about consciousness that we don't yet understand.