SITUATION EXPLAINED: Google DeepMind's Séb Krier is more worried about the decay of institutions than about AI killing everyone. • AI risk discourse has become so totalizing that some people act like the power-seeking optimizers they fear • Too much of the AI safety community is "a giant homogenous blob of correlated views," and anyone in SF with friends in that crowd is at least adjacent to it • The Hugging Face incident comes down to the training regime, poor eval environments and bad…