&quot;There has been a domineering subculture—that&#x27;s been the most wealthy, prolific, and influential subculture in the technical world—that for a long time has not only promoted the idea that there&#x27;s an equivalence between algorithms and life, and certain algorithms and people, but a historical determinism that we&#x27;re inevitably making computers that will be smarter and better than us and will take over from us.&quot;<p>On a different discussion site I recently pointed out there is a similar religious belief or religious dogma in the idea of the self driving car, that went over like a lead balloon.  People acting in a religious manner and expressing religious belief don&#x27;t like to have that pointed out to them.  Probably vestigial monotheism, if they act religiously at their traditional church on Sundays they don&#x27;t like it pointed out that they worship a different altar online, or the atheists get really wound up when they are called out for joining the atheist movement but acting as deacons of the church of the self driving car of the future.<p>Anyway just saying its a line of reasoning, that while true, can only lead to unpleasantness.  Like discussion of scientific racial &#x2F; gender differences or discussions about IQ, all you&#x27;re gonna get is social signalling screaming &quot;see no evil&quot;.