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I don't like the prevailing cynicism of dismissing the content of the message just because some bad/prejudiced/wrong factions are involved in it. It's not the way I learned to do research and answer questions. It's nevertheless an ad hominem to dismiss an issue just because some people out there are trying to co-opt it. There's a psychological explanation for that cynical behavior: internalized oppression. The focus is put on the morality of the people saying a thing, rather than just looking at the thing and deciding, independent of the existence of those groups, the objective, scientific implications.

If it were a perfect society and people discovered deep neural networks, there would be no excuse to blame bad actors for posing the question of whether AGI is an existential problem or not, and what to do about it. Unlike bad groups of people, the question won't go away. In the real world, it is entirely possible to have to consider multiple issues at once, not at the expense of any issue.