Still, when you find yourself trying to develop God in order to take over the world (or even sometimes universe), you should really be saying "Wait. Are we the baddies?" and not respond that that with "oh no, we'll give other people's ideas of 'value' consideration too, especially if they're not intellectually disabled by our judgement".

> But, still, “aligned with some people “ still sounds a fair bit better than “not aligned with anyone”.

I'm not sure about that. Part of the capability to do great harm is from the near miss. Fighting off Mindless grey good is better than some techbro trying to "optimize" you against your will.

Of course this line of thinking requires accepting their inane premises, but it's worrysome that even if they were right the astonishing hubris would make them the existential threat more than anyone else.

I think the greater relevance is the underlying unhealthy mental states underlying the doom cult. A person living a life in service of a very fringe idea we'll all likely suffer ultimate doom beyond measure unless their social group gets its way is going to exhibit all manner of compromised judgement.