Correct & timely. There do exist margins where honesty and effectiveness trade off against each other, but today—in 2025, that is—this is no longer one of them. Your SB 1047 friend is quite right to suggest that things were different in 2023, though. The amount of resistance we got behind the scenes in trying to get words like “extinction” and even “AGI” (!!) published in our report (which was mostly written in 2023) was something to behold: back then you could only push the envelope so far before it became counterproductive. No longer. The best metaphor I’ve seen for what’s happening right now in government circles is a kettle of boiling water: pockets of people who get it are coalescing and finding each other; entire offices are now AGI-pilled, where in 2023 you’d be lucky to find a single individual among a phalanx of skeptics.
Credit where credit is due, incidentally: the biggest single inflection point for this phenomenon was clearly Situational Awareness. Almost zero reporting in the mainstream news; yet by the end of 2024, everyone in the relevant spaces had read & absorbed it.
Correct & timely. There do exist margins where honesty and effectiveness trade off against each other, but today—in 2025, that is—this is no longer one of them. Your SB 1047 friend is quite right to suggest that things were different in 2023, though. The amount of resistance we got behind the scenes in trying to get words like “extinction” and even “AGI” (!!) published in our report (which was mostly written in 2023) was something to behold: back then you could only push the envelope so far before it became counterproductive. No longer. The best metaphor I’ve seen for what’s happening right now in government circles is a kettle of boiling water: pockets of people who get it are coalescing and finding each other; entire offices are now AGI-pilled, where in 2023 you’d be lucky to find a single individual among a phalanx of skeptics.
“The time is ripe” indeed.
Credit where credit is due, incidentally: the biggest single inflection point for this phenomenon was clearly Situational Awareness. Almost zero reporting in the mainstream news; yet by the end of 2024, everyone in the relevant spaces had read & absorbed it.