Top AI commentator says negative polarization over AI is inevitable, slams skeptics
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-12
Prominent AI commentator teortaxesTex argues in a thread that negative polarization around AI is inevitable, lashing out at what he calls smug anti-AI sneering on Bluesky and dismissing concerns like DC data-center water use as attempts to dodge the deeper fear of superior machine intelligence. A vivid sample of the current community divide over AGI.
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