AI doom narratives are just Hollywood disaster movies set in San Francisco
rao2z · x · 2026-09-11
@rao2z notes that Hollywood cataclysms always strike NY or LA, and argues AI-will-kill-us-all narratives share the same parochialism — just swap in SF/SJC as the epicenter. A light critique of the geographic and cultural insularity of AI doomerism.
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