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.

In a similar way, the concentrated or distilled version of something can often be much more dangerous than the naturally occurring version

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Modern social media algos encourage writing a more concentrated/extreme version so you end up with people sharing things they don’t fully believe. It’s such an interesting phenomenon.