The Coalition Is Already Here - Nomads Vagabonds
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On broken promises, omnicausal coalitions, and the politics of AI safety
Over the winter holidays, I went home to the Midwest. My dad, who two years ago had essentially no opinion on artificial intelligence beyond “that’s the thing you care about, right?”, pulled out his phone and showed me a Facebook reel from an anti-datacenter influencer from Wisconsin. Millions of views and tens of thousands of furious comments. This ended up with a family signal chat discussing whether or not AI was really draining the water supply. It wasn’t. The water claims are mostly overstated. But that’s not really the point. The point is that two years ago, AI had almost no…
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