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Miles Brundage @Miles_Brundage

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Miles Brundage @Miles_Brundage · 50m
Replying to @sharongoldman
Many people do not want to accept that we are undergoing an extremely rapid and dangerous increase in AI capabilities, and cope with this crazy situation by denying it, getting angry, shifting the topic, coming up with spurious accusations, etc.
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Tweet from Miles Brundage, replying to Sharon Goldman, arguing that many people cope with the reality of rapid, dangerous AI capability increases through denial, anger, topic-shifting, and spurious accusations.

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Aashish Reddy @_AashishReddy

— quoting @RichardDawki... (Richard Dawkins)

Aashish Reddy @_AashishReddy · 8h "I gave Claude the text of a novel I am writing. He took a few seconds to read it and then showed, in subsequent conversation, a level of understanding so subtle, so sensitive, so intelligent that I was moved to expostulate, 'You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!'" > QUOTED: > Richard Dawki... @RichardDawki... · 16h > unherd.com/2026/04/is-ai-... > I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed.
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Richard Dawkins (evolutionary biologist, prominent public intellectual and longtime skeptic) publicly stating he tried and failed to convince himself Claude (which he calls "Claudia") is not conscious, based on its response to his novel manuscript — quoted via an UnHerd article link (unherd.com/2026/04/is-ai-...). A high-profile, unexpected voice weighing in on AI consciousness, directly relevant to Nathan's core research interest in theories of AI consciousness and to the project's consciousness cluster (06). Worth following up: the full UnHerd article.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias · 14h A lot of anti-LLM commentary is the equivalent of the (perfectly accurate!) take that if you haven't learned how to drive a car, a car provides you with very little utility and is also pretty dangerous.
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A pundit's tweet making an analogy that LLM criticism often reflects lack of user skill rather than inherent tool flaws, comparable to driving competence. General AI-discourse commentary, tangential to Nathan's core safety/welfare interests but relevant to public LLM-adoption debate.

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