Mastodon culture seems pretty anxious about infectious disease and pretty relaxed about where AI is going.

I’m the inverse so that makes me a Mastodon contrarian. (Actually I’m not that relaxed about ID, just used to it.)

@jgordon “relaxed” is one way to put it. “dismissive simply because of the combined weight of sneers over not-all-that-relevant questions” is the vibe I get. “groupfeel” is a helluva drug, and the group dynamics stemming from who self-selected onto Mastodon seems like another jump in the long-running trend of siloization