well with the recent Microsoft CEO statement on "we have to find a use for this stuff or it won't be socially acceptable to waste so much electricity on it" they have some level of awareness, but only a very surface level awareness
kinda depressing seeing people fall for Yud’s shtick without realising about all the other bullshit (though in fairness the average person is not aware of the many years of rationalism lore). thankfully people in the comment section are more skeptical but still cautious, which I think is a fair reaction to all this
that post got way funnier with Eliezer’s recent twitter post about “EAs developing more complex opinions on AI other than itll kill everyone is a net negative and cancelled out all the good they ever did”
it’s all coming together. every single techbro and current government moron, they all loop back around to epstein in the end