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"To embrace a woman is to embrace a sack of manure" -- Odo of Cluny

Clement of Alexandria, Pedagogues II, 33, 2
With women "the very consciousness of their own nature must evoke feelings of shame."

Tertulian, father of latin christianity
"Woman you are the devils doorway... Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning"

Knox, protestant reformer
“Nature I say, paints [women] further to be weak, frail, impatient, feeble and foolish: and experience has declared them to be inconstant, variable, cruel and lacking the spirit of counsel and regiment [or, leadership].”

Luther, protestant reformer
“'Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error."

St. Albert the Great
"Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison with his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she herself cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one's guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil... In evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good."

I recall how Oppenheimer and Einstein recoiled at the way the technology they helped produce was used, both in the bombings of Japan as well as the reframing of the geopolitical landscape through things like MAD (mutually assured destruction).

I look at opportunists like Mark Zuckerburg and others trying to harness AI’s in a similar light, Oppenheimer died an alcoholic trying to grapple with what he did yet the pioneers of AI may never live to see the infernal consequences of their actions.

My question is Should we treat them similarly, or is this comparison off base?