Tapestry of belief systems, conceptual terrain that constrains social behavior... same stuff.

I don't claim he is the one being obscene. I think he's quite conservative (the idea of AI influencing behavior is not new and his example is simplistic). I was talking about myself attempting to describe these dynamics in more clear cut terms.

It's also not universally obscene, it's obscene in a "everybody knows but you are not supposed to talk about it" way.