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Right. Greenpeace also protects the world against technological threats only they can see, and in that capacity has worked to stop nuclear power and GMO use. Acting as if all concern about technology is noble is extremely misguided. There's a lot of excessive concern about technology that holds society back.

If we use the standard of the alignment folks - that the technology today doesn't even have to be the danger, but an imaginary technology that could someday be built might be the danger. And we don't even have to be able to articulate clearly how it's a danger, we can just postulate the possibility. Then all technology becomes suspect, and needs a priest class to decided what access the population can have for fear of risking doomsday.