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.

these various stimuli have different depth of perturbation, don't they? I think this is a fascinating distinction (like room temp vs academic performance), though clearly Karpathy has an easier time of referring to concepts like Goebbelsian propaganda or flash-mobs like the recent TikTok drama.