the-citizen is replying to this thing I said:

We're trying to avoid names like "friendly" and "normative" that could reinforce someone's impression that we think of AI risk in anthropomorphic terms, that we're AI-hating technophobes, or that we're moral philosophers.

Those are just three things we don't necessarily want to be perceived as; they don't necessarily share anything else in common. However, because the second one is pejorative and the first is sometimes treated as pejorative, the-citizen was wondering if I'm anti-moral-philosophy. I replied that highly anthropomorphic AI and moral philosophy are both perfectly good fields of study, and overlap at least a little with MIRI's work; but the typical newcomer is likely to think these are more central to AGI safety work than they are.