Put another way, the most hardline, fundamentalist Mormon I've ever known was a former boss, who was a fantastic engineer -- and completely incapable of challenging his assumptions in any other area. Ruthlessly logical when it came to system design, but couldn't apply that to anything else.

Point is, you have a lot of adaquate STEM types talking out their ass about stuff outside their domain.

Plus a non-trivial amount of marketing and agit-prop bots, which shouldn't come as a surprise to the crowd that was talking about GPT long before it was cool.