'Stop RSI' vs 'build AGI': the two warring camps of San Francisco's AI scene
n_sri_laasya · x · 2026-09-17
nsrilaasya observes that "stop RSI" and "continue developing AGI" have become the modern-day political left and right wings of San Francisco's tech scene — a one-line distillation of the camps forming between AI safety advocates and accelerationists in Silicon Valley.
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