I'm not the one you're replying to, but let me offer a similar comparison to you.
1. A group of people that evaluate things based on what people already know and what they can reliably observe. Their judgements about things like computer algorithms are based entirely on what we've already learned them from the past. They're not quick to jump on new bandwagons that make extreme, world-changing claims based on shaky foundations, if there are any foundations at all. They are not zealots set in stone with their opinions, but they can recognize that extraordinary claims require truly extraordinary evidence.
2. A group that creates a technology and that knows more about their technology than most other people in the world, who obviously recognize some similarities as well as a world of differences between what they're building and anything biological - yet so overcome with emotions and conflicted feelings for their technology that they start assigning it with traits they know they have never built into it, like a capacity for biological pain, the ability to be coerced like a being, or a visceral fear of death. The group feels so strongly about it that it starts treating the technology as humanlike by default, never caring for having any evidence, let alone extraordinary evidence.
Which group feels like it calmly follows established scientific progress, and which one behaves like it is worshiping a deity?