Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Cascio in The Atlantic, more on cognitive enhancement as existential risk mitigation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 June 2009 09:04:19AM 3 points [-]

Giant cheesecake is about the jump from capability to motive, usually in the presence of anthropomorphism or other reasons to assume the preference without thinking.

This sounds more like a generic problem of technophilia (phobia) - mostly just confirmation bias or standard filtering of arguments. It probably does need a name, though, like Appeal to Selected Possibilities or something like that.