Andrej K makes an interesting point and Autism Capital's dismissive reply is wrong.

It is rational to be more afraid of man than of nature, because it is rational to be afraid of powerful optimizers.

This is also often why we are more suspicious of for-profit versions than non-profit versions of the same activity.

you had me until the for-profit/non-profit part. i’m personally much more skeptical of virtue signalers than i am of people who are upfront about what they want. at the end of the day, we all want the same thing.