ENS physics professor says colleagues all anti-AI, claims serious physics unfunded since the 70s
RachelVT42 · x · 2026-10-15
@brivael recounts a dinner with a quantum physics professor at France's ENS who says he's the only non-leftist in a department of anti-AI, degrowth-minded colleagues who object to AI on water-consumption grounds. The professor claims no truly serious physics has been funded since the 1970s.
Reposter RachelVT42 frames this as evidence that AI is only an "existential threat" to complacent incumbents, argues inertia is the real danger, and calls for acceleration as the "boomer cycle" ends.
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