The concerning thing is that AI contrarianism is being left wing coded. Imagine you’re fighting a war and one side decides “guns are overhyped, let’s stick with swords”. While there is a lot of hype about AI, even the pessimistic take has to admit it’s a game changing tech. If it isn’t doing anything useful for you, that’s because you need to get off your butt and start building tools on top of it.

Especially people on the left need to realize how important their vision is to the future if AI. Right now you can see the current US admin having zero concern for AI safety or carbon use. If you keep your head in the dirt saying “bubble!” that’s no problem. But if this is here to stay then you need to get involved.

That's a good point and even worse we'll eventually end up with yet another issue where both left and right offer terrible options and there's no nuanced middle ground :/