Debate: AI Data Centers Must Be 'Assimilative, Not Totalizing' to Win Over Locals
curious_vii · x · 2026-08-21
A debate about AI's relationship with communities: one arguer claims that for people to like their new AI 'neighbors', AI should be assimilative rather than totalizing. The original poster counters that what annoys locals isn't the physical appearance of data centers but what's inside them—what runs inside must also become beautiful and assimilative. He notes it's an indictment of the industry that people believe they're summoning totalizing rather than assimilative aliens—and they might be right.
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