[tzekid]

Damn, comparing people who are intrigued by topics deemed taboo by certain moral standards to cancer is ... quite something else.

How about putting up a curated model for the public which is easy to access and a less curated / more free model behind the API with a bunch of boolean switches. Or any other impulse / idea that doesn't label (any) people as cancer.

[freedomben]

This attitude strikes me as deeply anti-intellectual, that you aren't allowed to compare things because comparision automatically means you're equating A with B. I doubt you (or most people) even live by this. In our minds most people compare The Ukraine with Russia, and come out with an opinion (sometimes Ukraine is righteous and good and Russia is evil, or vice versa, or somewhere in between). Pondering that comparison doesn't mean you are thinking/declaring Ukraine == Russia.

Edit: For curiosity I looked up "compare" in Merriam-Webster's: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compare

1: to represent as similar : LIKEN Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? —William Shakespeare

2a: to examine the character or qualities of especially in order to discover resemblances or differences compare your responses with the answers

b: to view in relation to He is tall compared to me. The test was easy compared with the last one.

3: to inflect or modify (an adjective or adverb) according to the degrees of comparison : state the positive, comparative, and superlative forms of

I'll assume you were using definition 1 above, and apologize somewhwat for my harsh take. I don't think that's what GP intended with their comparison, I think GP was using approach 2a.

[BulgarianIdiot]

I didn't do that.

I just said, people who are interested by their own success at the expense of society are in fact analogous to cancer cells, which also broke from the shared programming and optimized for local survival and reproduction.

That's not me morally judging people who are "intrigued by topics". I'm clearly also among those "intrigued" by these topics. I'm just saying it how it is: when higher order breaks down, the more local solution hurts the whole. It's a fact.

We can discuss how selfish people are sometimes useful in society. Because society is complex like that. Maybe true for cancer too, who knows. We really have poor understanding of systems, and clearly are averse to learning more, because someone may get insulted by being compared to cancer. I don't judge cancer, why do you? :D