> I struggle to understand so much hostility to this approach.

It's going to be really rough for a lot of folks as machines get better and better at domains that the human brain was exclusively useful for. I tend to view the hostility as a mix of both "unless we have proof this could all be hokum" and "we're going to lose a lot of what we consider makes humans amazing".

Compassion is going to be very, very important in the next few years. We're going to hurt, both internally and externally.