Blogger: Some people would rather see AI fail than benefit from companies they dislike
VraserX · x · 2026-11-12
VraserX argues that some people are so emotionally invested in hating Sam Altman or Dario Amodei that they'd rather watch AI fail than see humanity benefit from technology built by companies they dislike — to the point where curing cancer would be a disappointing outcome for them. He sarcastically calls this out as tribalism trumping the value of the technology itself.
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