Not Liking Sci-Fi Is Turning Into a Competitive Advantage, AI Folks Debate Treating It as Prophecy
fkasummer · x · 2026-10-23
Heather Rasley pushes back on AI folks treating sci-fi as prophetic texts: its authors are mortals with no more foresight than anyone else. fkasummer adds a counterintuitive take — "not liking sci-fi is turning out to be a competitive advantage" — while asking what kind of technologist lacks a rich world of imagined technologies in their head. A telling split in AI culture over sci-fi's influence.
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