AI doomers may be America's most technophilic group, with nuclear as their one exception
ben_j_todd · x · 2026-09-16
Ben Todd responds to the claim that core 'AI doomers' are among the most technophilic subsets of Americans, with nuclear power as essentially their single exception — he recalls defending nuclear power in his French oral exam at 18 and estimates it's a 90-10 or even 95-5 issue for them.
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