We’re all gonna die fyi https://t.co/IlBmYAmskt
Who's Who of AI
Matthew Yglesias
Why they matter
Tracked through public AI activity and peer connections inside the directory.
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What they're sharing
nytimes.com
The data center backlash isn’t just NIMBYism slowboring.com
Proposed Eastport underwater AI data center advances wabi.tv
A.I. progress is giving me writer’s block slowboring.com
Articles & links
Georgia on my mind www.slowboring.com/p/the-data-c...
When I first heard about people mobilizing to block an underwater data center in Eastport, it sounded like a totally fake idea to me but apparently this is a real project. https://t.co/bet009IrN9
I find it hard to get an objective view on who is right about it, but my sense is we’re likely to get an AI singularity before we find out. https://t.co/FdeNs99q06
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Recent commentary
I don’t really favor AI progress so if sand gets thrown in the gears of the hyperscalers that’s fine, but in practice a lot of the activism against data centers is activism against transmission lines and that has bad implications for wind and solar projects.
If you point out on X that AI systems are broadly progressive in their worldview, rightists suddenly start talking like AI-skeptical BlueSky users.
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