> ...can only be concordant if one assumes they're idiots. It's unlikely they are... Why would you say that it's unlikely? That's a very strange assumption to

> ...can only be concordant if one assumes they're idiots. It's unlikely they are... Why would you say that it's unlikely? That's a very strange assumption to make - Hanlon has a whole razor about that. They're absolutely idiots. Or, put more politely and precisely, they're operating from intuition - "nature good, technology and/or human development bad" - without thinking about whether the ultimate consequences of what they're pushing for will properly advance their cause.