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Chris Painter @ChrisPainterYup

Chris Painter (@ChrisPainterYup) · Apr 8: "I think many many more people would truly care about existential AI safety, and behave as though they truly care, if they believed AI capabilities will develop as far and as fast as many people currently working on existential AI safety do"
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A short opinion tweet arguing public/professional apathy toward x-risk AI safety is largely a function of differing capability-timeline beliefs rather than differing values — a common framing in the AI safety community about the "belief gap" driving the "caring gap."

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kalomaze @kalomaze

— quoting maria (@90smiau)

kalomaze @kalomaze · 11h if this post surprises you (it apparently did for a lot of people) then you probably have not great theory of mind for people who are not software engineers > QUOTED: maria > w < @90smiau · 23h i just found out chatgpt has a SUBSCRIPTION service?? WHO IS PAYING IM LAUGHING SO HARD RN
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A tweet exchange illustrating the gap between tech-insider awareness and general public awareness of AI products — a user genuinely surprised ChatGPT has a paid subscription tier, with a reply noting this reveals a theory-of-mind gap among AI-industry insiders about normal users. Minor commentary on public AI literacy, tangential to project themes.

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Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger

Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger · 4h I'm at a small conference where people are showing off things like computational chemistry tools they vibe coded in an hour or two to accelerate their research. I read blog posts from people whose GPT 5.3 Codex instances now code for eight or more hours on their own now. Then I look on X and I see people absolutely sure that the only use of AI is creating ten second videos that they claim are ugly (even if they aren't ugly). As William Gibson said, "the future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed." (You can tell William Gibson was already an AI decades ago because he used em-dashes in his writing.)
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A tweet on the perceptual gap between frontier AI users (vibe-coded chemistry tools, GPT-5.3 Codex running autonomously for 8+ hours) and public skepticism focused on AI-generated video quality, framed via Gibson's "unevenly distributed future" quote. Relevant to Nathan's tracking of autonomous-coding capability claims (GPT-5.3 Codex long-horizon autonomy) feeding into automation/singularity timeline estimates.

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