The old SSC essay, How the West Was Won, seems relevant.

I am pretty sure there was, at one point, such a thing as western civilization. I think it included things like dancing around maypoles and copying Latin manuscripts. At some point Thor might have been involved. That civilization is dead. It summoned an alien entity from beyond the void which devoured its summoner and is proceeding to eat the rest of the world.

Even EY didn't expect it to look this bad this soon

The doctor says, "Cheer up! The great AI Safety researcher Yudkowsky is in town. Attend his lecture, and you'll feel better."

Worse then merely immoral, "air con" is considered American. The proud people of Europe would die first.

I don't have a detailed writeup, but this seems straightforward enough to fit in this comment: you're conducting your moral reasoning backwards, which is why it looks like other people have a sophisticated intuition about neurobiology you don't. 

The "moral intuition"^[1] you start with is that insects^[2] aren't worth as much as people, and then if you feel like you need to justify that, you can use your knowledge of the current best understanding of animal cognition to construct a metric that fits of as much complexity as you like.

1. ^{^}

   I'd call mine a "moral oracle" instead. Or a moracle, if you will.

2. ^{^}

   I'm assuming this post is proximately motivated by the Don't Eat Honey post, but this works for shrimp or whatever too.

If you're concerned about deleting negative comments, you should see blocking the people making them as effectively deleting their comments from every future post. 

all genetic mutations are bad.

You might be rediscovering Fisher's geometric model. A refinement to your current model you could consider is that close to, but not exactly at, the local optima, sufficiently small mutations have a 50% chance of being beneficial. 

This proves too much. If you consistently require there be no "serious personal and professional consequences" before you trust a source, you'd have to dismiss almost all of them. 

And outside the US, statements the government finds offensive often run the risk of criminal prosecution as well. The existence of "stable rule of law" doesn't preclude this.

I'm on the lookout for more models like this

Here's a recent one where the quality is pretty good: f-lite. They say, "The models were trained on Freepik's internal dataset comprising approximately 80 million copyright-safe images."